I can't answer about how women's minds work. I may be cursed with ovaries but I've never been really "girly" despite my mom dressing me in pink as a child. I don't have many female friends bc I don't understand how their minds work & the mind games, drama, and lack of verbal communication aggravates me. Not all of them do it, but it drives me up a wall. Like my mom will not communicate what she wants. She will ask a question about whether or not we have something in the house but will not follow it up with "I want it" & like 5 to 10 minutes later starts yelling & claiming she asked me to get it for her. Sometimes she won't even say anything. She'll be completely silent & start yelling bc in her mind she wanted to ask me something but she didn't actually speak it & she expects me to read her mind. I keep telling her to communicate verbally what she wants. I also hate when she asks "Do you want to..." and then says something that I know means she wants me to do something for her. One time I said "No" & she became enraged. I said "Hey, you asked me if I wanted to, not if I *would* do it". I was not in the best of moods. LOL.
But on to other things. My rant for the day involves my town's a-hole mayor. He's probably the worst mayor we've ever had. Basically misappropriates city funding & is corrupt as hell. He's made it so the city stopped sending out notices for people's property taxes being due & has them charging $100 per month for a late fee. From what I understand, that's not legal bc all the laws I could find said they could only charge 10% of the tax owed- but my friend had to pay over $600 in late fees on a house that is assessed at $60/yr for taxes. They've done it to him more than once. I also found out the city will claim possession of people's houses without notice & then rent them out to collect rental income. They also appropriate vehicles. In the few years this guy has been mayor, he's had the city pay for 3 vehicles for him. He also likes to ride around in a non-street legal golf cart & when people complained it was illegal, he passed a city ordinance to make it legal. So now children are riding around the public streets in golf carts, zipping in & out of traffic, getting in the way of traffic, & causing accidents.
This is the same mayor who threatened to fine my friend for allegedly having debris in his yard after my friend had cleaned the place up (it had been a meth-house that was falling apart). When my friend had to go stay with his grandfather after his grandmother died, the mayor had the city charge my friend $400 for 2 months water bill-- his water bill was normally $30/month & there was zero usage on it for the 2 months he was gone, but the mayor claimed he was doing him a favor by not shutting his water off for those 2 months and that was why he was charging that much. My friend had to pay it or have his water shut off. It was pretty much extortion. The mayor also fired the (now) ex husband of a friend bc he thought the husband had pressed charges against someone the mayor liked. Except, the husband didn't know there were charges & hadn't pressed them. Mayor ordered him to drop the charges or he was fired. Guy explained he hadn't filed charges & didn't know what he was talking about. Mayor told him to go to lunch & go drop charges or not to come back bc he didn't believe him.
Anyway, this brings me to last week when I was over at my friend's house. I see an ugly dude without a mask rolling around the streets on a riding cart going door to door handing out flyers. He started to come over to my friend's door & I shouted "Hey, motherf***, don't come up here without a f***ing mask!" He just laughed and walked up anyway. I went inside to avoid my urge to throat-punch him. He handed a flyer to my friend's fiance & talked to her in a condescending tone (which she didn't recognize & thought he was being nice). It was a flyer asking for re-election. When I saw who it was I flipped off the flyer & expressed my disdain for him. My brother then took the flyer and rubbed his balls with it before throwing it in the outside trash. But really, after being told not to come to the door, this a-hole came up anyway. It's especially tacky after how he's treated my friend & ripped him off.
Did I mention this mayor also banned trick-or-treating in town?
I'm still trying to find out when local elections are so I can vote him out. I really wish we'd had one of his opponent's yard signs up in my friend's yard when he drove by.
I know it seems minor, but it still annoys me. Especially since Covid is rampant in my town and every single person who's gotten it & been sent to the local hospital has died.
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