BrotherBear

You'll never believe this. I live outside of Pasadena and last night while sleeping I heard a loud shatter. I thought someone had busted my window! I ran in there real quick with my mace and my glass table in the space room was shattered everywhere. It looked like it exploded! So, I flip the light on to clean it up and there's a bullet laying on the floor kind of embedded in it. I look around and don't see any holes. Look at the ceiling, yep, a hole and drywall cracked around it. Evidently what happened, best I can tell, is after Alabama won some football game or something someone (I thought it was fireworks) was shooting up in the AIR! The police came and took all the details (they weren't too happy about the newspapers in the other room, ugh). I doubt they'll find the person but why would ANYONE shoot up in the AIR? http://www.lds.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=344&d=1262978105 http://www.lds.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=345&d=1262978159

Thanks so much pam, I don't want you to feel you need to tip-toe around me. Please continue with the thread, I'm a little ashamed I chimed in and turned it sour

pam we're fine, honestly, I know where you heart is, I'm so sorry if you felt I was angry at you, not at all. It's a hard thing to understand. I so hope you don't think I was annoyed at this thread or anything that anyone has posted. It's one of those things that you really don't know until you've been there. We're all logical and OCD and hoarding defies logic. Triple checking light-switches that should, and are already off, is a big deal for me. I sometimes also check to make sure my door is locked. Sometimes leaving my apartment takes 15 minutes. Repeating it over and over. It's a constant situation of self doubt and perhaps questioning if you checked it good enough of if it was a hallucination when you thought it was locked. I'm so sorry if you thought my post was accusatory in nature, it wasn't it honestly was of understanding. I look back at the things my mom did with OCD and say "Thats nuts!" and I find myself doing the same thing with no control over it.

I'm glad to see the theme here is understanding and empathy, especially from you pam. This is genuine, I'm not being sarcastic. I have been diagnosed with OCD and demostrated hoarding tendencies. The thing is, it defies logic. Logically I know keeping old newspapers is stupid but for some reason the emotional side of my mind conveys worth to the logical side and I'm conflicted. It's difficult and people say "Just throw it away" but it's difficult and I spend lots of time second guessing myself. It's difficult to talk about this but I actually lost a cat one time because he knocked a pile over and was suffocated. Medication doesn't help, if anything, it induces a dazed effect. It's genetic, I know, my mother had it and I think at some point it is a nurtured behavior as well with latent innate qualities. I'm really glad to be a part of LDS and here on this site, the compassion and understanding here is quite warming. Again, not sarcasm. It's so difficult to read tone and connotation in text. The Internet has a vivid memory and the legacy you leave here speaks highly of yourself. I'm glad to be part of a community like this one.

I GOT THEM! Caught! You'll never believe this one. The apartment under me are a bunch of thugs if you ask me and I've had issues with them making hissing sounds when I walk by. Well guess what? THEY were breaking into my apartment using a lock-pick kit and were playing my Wii and using my soap! Also the younger one was the one who went through my personal items. I spoke with the land lord and she said that two males had let maintenance in every time, hence the note. We triple verified my apartment number. I also noticed some food items missing. I've contacted the police and filled out a report, evidently these two have a record and they took my Wii for analysis of fingerprints. The landlord was very kind and we ended up replacing the locks with a good Schlag set. THIS IS NUTS. Who would break into an apartment to play a Wii and use my soap?!?

Oh Steve! Are you in at at-will employement state? If not you may have a wrongful termination suit you can do. Sometimes it's easier to compromise your integrity than to suffer the consequences of doing what is right. Be glad you did was is right.

I just called my landlord and she said that per the lease they have permission to enter my apartment to make repairs and emergency repairs and they do not need my permission. I'm too ignorant to setup a webcam, the Wii was almost impossible hooking it up to the TV. I also found out they've been using my soap too which is a little odd. I was wanting something like a lock that would hook up to a telephone so if they entered I could rush home real quick and perhaps catch them in the act of playing my Wii and photograph it.

Do they make door locks which attach to a phone to make a phone call or anything? I have an odd situation where my landlord for the apartment may be entering without my permission. I have an Wii and use that Wii fit stuff and I always put it away and take the game disc out. I've noticed the last few days after I get home from class my Wii fit is left out and there's a game disc in the console. Also, my undergarments are misplaced. No one has a key to this place other than the landlord. I'm a single female so I'm kind of freaked out a bit and want something that will call me when the door opens. When they enter they'll leave some note on the door that says "replaced air filter" or "inspect faucet for leaks". Very trivial things and things I've never requested. Nothing has gone missing but I'm a little freaked out they're playing my Wii.

Thanks. I ended up tossing them but I had saved them for a reason. AFAIK they still do contain trace amounts of heavy metals and I think it rather flippant to just toss them. Also, I understand most of them to be non-ferrous and obviously non-magnetic leading to a lack of ease of extraction. I understand that magnesium, zinc, and carbon are all naturally occurring but I'm so apprehensive about just tossing them. I guess it's just a lack of education on my part.

Evidently not, at least from a local government perspective Seems like a big waste just to toss them.

Hey folks, I've got a bunch of dead alkaline batteries in a double-ziplock freezer bag. Some of them have started to leak but they are contained in the ziplock bag. What's the proper way to dispose of these I was always under the impression I shouldn't toss them in the trash. Right now I have about 100 or so of them from C, D, AA, AAA, and 9-Volt. I tried calling my local municipality and they acted like I was insane for saving them.

Kind of an odd-ball question but do you make the bed? When I was growing up my mother used to make me make my bed before I left for the day but now that I'm grown rarely, if ever, do I make the bed. Friends who are married now say they never make the bed unless company comes over, which doesn't really make sense, unless the company will be in your bed room. So, do you still make the bed?

Hello! I'm a little new here but have been reading for some time. What's the worst social mistake or embarrassment you've made? For me, and this one was terrible, I have a good Muslim friend and she and I were attending a friendship party and she has brought some hummus dip and my other friend kept calling it Hamas dip! Oh my! Every time she'd talk about how great this Hamas dip was my friend would wince. I was SO embarrassed. I had to apologize to my Muslim friend for my other friends ignorance. - Stacia