So do I put up with the aggravation of aholes or do I just address them directly? If I address them, it's likely they will leave after next month's rent is due.  But should money be the final, determining factor in whether I address foul behavior or not? I think not.

The dude throws his cigarette butts on the ground all the time by the shed.  He parks his truck over there.  They let one of their dogs out to run the park freely and s*** everywhere.  Last night, he went into the shed for 2 minutes to use the bathroom and turned the ac all the way up to maximum setting.  They demand I mow their lawn every 4 to 5 days.  I'm thinking time to address them. If they leave, they leave.  I can't just tolerate this anymore.  It's too aggravating and they are blatantly defying the park rules.  

I'll let myself cool down a bit before I decide what to do or what words to speak.  

Anyway, it's a very hot day today, but I got that in-the-dirt drainage stuff completed.  I realized that I don't have a fitting to hook up to the faucet.  I figured the fittings would come with the box, I figured wrong.  So now, yet another trip to Lowe's. There is a plumber that works there, I will ask him what fitting/s I need to go from that brass, threaded rod coming out from below the faucet to transition to this shark bite junk.  

That shark bit clamper? The cheapest thing they had was $66.  Harbor Freight didn't even carry one.  A worker there was asking me what I was looking for, the only one they had on the shelf was $109.  He looked it up, it says there are 3 here. So, he started looking at the stock boxes on the upper shelves and sure enough, there was one up there.

He then suggested I just use the thing and return it.  Huh?  He went on to talk about how people just walk out with stuff and they aren't even allowed to say anything about it.  Like, petty theft - well shoplifting, whatever you want to call it, pretty brazen to just take stuff and walk out the store with it.  He then said a lot of stuff that is returned, even tho in good condition, they are required to just throw in the trash can. 

What?  Insanity. But, in my mind, he was attempting to instruct me to do something that is unethical and borderline immoral.  Take something, use it and then return it as if it were defective or something. "People do it all the time".  

Well I don't.  This is what drove Montgomery Wards out of business.  They would allow returns no matter how long a person would have something. Snowbirds would come to town, outfit their trailers with all kinds of merchandise for the winter, when winter was over and they were going home?  Return all the merchandise. A road map to bankruptcy, I don't know how Lowe's can do that and stay in business. 

I do get employees not being allowed to stop the thieves. Lots of companies instruct their employees to stay out of their way to also stay out of harm's way.  You've seen the videos of them walking calmly, not even running, out of a Macy's or similar store with shopping carts full of merchandise they didn't pay for.  Thank the defund the police movement for that and a general attitude of not prosecuting these people even if they catch them.

And to think Democrats are now saying that Republicans are the anti-police party.  I was about floored when I first started hearing that. The cities that vote to defund the police? They are not republican run cities.  They gaslight and engage in revisionist history, they apparently think we are all stupid and don't have memories.  

This mostly all started with the George Floyd event and escalated from there.  Taking over entire portions of cities as "autonomous zones" and defying police officers, destroying entire buildings and even burning them down, engaging in civil disobedience to the point of violence, yet these people have the gall to accuse Republicans of wanting to defund the police because we have seen the Durham report and it totally justifies Trump's stance that it was a witch hunt and that there was no russian collusion and that Wray and the FBI were engaging in a political ruse to attempt to help Trump be defeated?  

I have no idea where this all ends.  Because we have more new movements that come out after another one is implemented, such as the trans movement.  I wonder if these people would feel the same if their daughter was accosted by some trans "person" coming into the little girl's room, such as has occurred on numerous occasions as reported in the news?  What's next?  Well I'll tell you what I believe will happen, whether the next one or not: they are going to attempt to stack the court.  They want to expand the Supreme Court to 13 or more justices to be able to have them legislate from the bench.  They talk about impeaching Clarence Thomas and even Amy Barrett.  They are now calling the Supreme Court illegitimate.  They can't stand to lose and they attempt to justify their behavior from a moral standing saying that since they are right and everything that is being done is wrong, they can do whatever they please to "fix it".  

I would have never guessed 5 years ago that the country would take this radical of a turn and a switch to worldly, evil and immoral movements that defy reason and sanity.  Or that they are now openly wanting Communism/ Socialism.  That used to be taboo, now it's one of their main talking points and they tell us that Republicans don't care about people because we won't vote for more social justice crap that lines one person with money and takes it out of another person's pocket involuntarily.  

Well, that rant started with what this person was telling me at Lowe's. I'm not going to return it simply because they won't say anything. I would have liked to have rented the tool but they don't have it for rent.  

I was at a stopping point since I don't have the parts to transition from the faucet and came home.  My jeans were filthy from crawling in the mud and I just wanted to take them off and get into clean clothes again. I won't need to crawl around in the dirt again today or hopefully, anytime soon.  

So, I'm also not going to make excuses not to keep on working, I'm headed to Lowe's to get the parts and then back to the property.