I'm sorry

I was just making a joke about the things I see changing around here, and I guess I offended some folks. I apologise. But really, I don't get brick mailboxes.

I thought your post was a hoot. Your point was a little subtle and unfortunately several people jumped on like you were complaining about how people live rather than just noting that your world has changed when you see these things. I think your post was very well written, some of the responses it generated were a bit crude.

Fortunately I live in a area where I don't see what would be termed progress by many. I now have six neighbors on my west fence but they are all people of modest means just trying to get along in the country and they cause me no trouble. I would really hate it if neighbors moved in who thought it to be right to try to limit the way I use my land.

No offence taken here,I don't like change but not all change is bad. Our little town up the road is getting more and more settled by immigrant families. It used to bother me at first because it seemed like we were being invaded but the reality is they're here working for minimum wage doing jobs most people don't want to do. They're helping to keep local business open by providing reliable labour and are renting vacant homes and spending money too. There was one foreign neighbour years ago that was terrible. She'd stand in the middle of the field flag me down demanding to know what we were doing and how it was going to affect her property. Thank goodness she moved back home.

I just wrote it off to you being in AR. Messing with you.

As a former infantry Marine I heard a lot of guys ripping on each other. In my opinion, people are far too sensitive. I found your posting entertaining and the upset individuals even more entertaining.

I met Stephan Pastis, the guy who does the Pearls Before Swine comic strip. He was telling an audience about all the folks he has offended and noted that he hasn't had any letters from bicyclists in a while, so he cranked out a few. Some people who feel compelled to play moral high ground with folks get upset.

Look forward to your next one. Can't wait to see who you upset next.

Brick mail boxes do not get knocked over with a ball bat.

No need to apologize my friend, we all have to deal with sno##lakes and butterflies every now and then.
Bless this country we live in and the first amendment (for now)

Are you kidding! Your post was so much fun it caused me to stay up way past my bed time waiting for the next response. This forum could get a little boring if all we talk about is how to get your 8n Ford running.

Every few years my county removes brick mailboxes that are built out by the road.
County says solid built mailboxes are a liability to the county because they are on the road right away.
County could be added to a lawsuit along with the owner if someone was to hit one of the solid built mailboxes and get hurt.

I enjoyed your post and pretty much agreed with it.

I thought it was just another topic. No mention of ethanol, calcium in tires, any kind of electrical problems, current presidents, former presidents, Harbor Freight, any kind of battery, Round up, taxes, insurance, government funding, types of oil, old gas, new gas, pray for me, cry for me, I want you on my side, I think you spelled apologize wrong, Walmart, diesel pickups, steel roofs, how to sharpen chainsaws, Tractor Supply. Don't worry about it. If we were all in the same room we would get along pretty well.

"If all we talk about is how to get your 8n ford running"

Thanks for that! Cracked me up!

You were absolutely correct about the brick mailboxes. My opinion, they are the goofiest thing ever. Our guys used to ever so often snow plow them out, and man you should have heard the complaints. But seriously, I'm surprised the traffic safety folks, whoever they might be, have not raised a ruckus about the dangers of accidently driving into one.

A friend used to be wing man on a town snow plow, and dreaded the brick mailboxes because bricks flew towards the truck if there was a miscalculation, and miscalculations happen as a truck gets shoved around by snowbanks. I'd never stopped to think about it. I believe there is a local law regulating certain "structures" on the town right of way just for that reason.

Zeke B.

You left out battery maintainer, joke of the day, weather, what's for supper, I Hate _____(fill in the blank many choices), cell phone, estate planning, best trailer, best tractor, best cordless battery, neighbor issues, ran when parked, carb problems. Sure there are more.

wood chips in the garden? (lol)

I really enjoyed reading through the replies, especially the comical ones. Still laughing about it.

Well folks, this is my coffee shop. I just sat down with a cup full of my specialty coffee (8 O'Clock Original, med roast, whole bean, ground here, drip Mr. Coffee pot). Don't have to get dressed, get out in the weather, burn up gas, wear and tear on the truck, dodge the "texters", put up with the coffee, listen to the same mouths flap day after day on guys thinking they know all there is to know about everything when all they know about is really nothing.

On here, you can be selective, if you get tired of listening to one flapping his yap, you can dial in another, different one every day if that suits you......................LMAO.

Well, did any body get their feelings hurt with what I said?

Anybody get a good laugh out of it?

I surely did.......get a good laugh out of it. Life is good. Enjoy!

Seriously, some really fine folks here with some serious knowledge helping those in need with their problems. This just happens to be my favorite site for that reason. Also like the "site cops" patrolling like they do to keep it enjoyable.

Mark

this site is great,,no matter what,,its always a lot of fun !Way Way better than tv!

(quoted from post at 00:42:16 09/04/17) I thought it was just another topic. No mention of ethanol, calcium in tires, any kind of electrical problems, current presidents, former presidents, Harbor Freight, any kind of battery, Round up, taxes, insurance, government funding, types of oil, old gas, new gas, pray for me, cry for me, I want you on my side, I think you spelled apologize wrong, Walmart, diesel pickups, steel roofs, how to sharpen chainsaws, Tractor Supply. Don't worry about it. If we were all in the same room we would get along pretty well.

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You get my vote for the best post on this site EVER!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

By now you should know the denizens of YT have a long list of sacred cows you're not allowed to gore. Curiously, brick mailboxes are on that list, and your post is not the first one to raise folks' hackles on this topic.

I'm not a fan of brick mailboxes. And yes, my wood post-mounted mailbox is vandalized from time to time. Que sera, sera.

Like I always tell my wife; If that's the biggest problem you have right now, be thankful, because most of the stuff you make a big deal out of ain't worth even worrying about.

A brick mailbox is against federal law if on road right of way.

I've often thought there should be a separate forum category titled "8N won't start." It would save valuable space in other categories .

(I have four of them; this summer is the first time in several years I've had all of them running at the same time.)

Hey Ford 8N's matter! Great, now I have to go make a sign and stand in the middle of my dirt road and block traffic! Might see a car in an hour or so ...

That is correct Leroy. Any steel, concrete or brick post, is against the law, on the right-of-way..
one issue can be a law suite if a vehicle hits it causing injury. google the mailbox rules..

Around here brick is illegal.You can't build a brick structure on road right of way.Mail boxes must be break away if a car hits it.

I enjoyed your post and found it spot on. Just sayin!

Morgan, no need to apologize. Your post was exactly what YT is all about. "Old pharts reminiscing about the good old days". My little town in southern NH Is textbook yuppies come to the country. 300% growth in the 42 years we have been here. 98% moved from MA where they work as management in high tech, or in finance. At town meeting they vote in the best of everything, and we old timers have to pay the same as they do for everything that they want.

Morgan, no need to apologize. Your post was exactly what YT is all about. "Old pharts reminiscing about the good old days". My little town in southern NH Is textbook yuppies come to the country. 300% growth in the 42 years we have been here. 98% moved from MA where they work as management in high tech, or in finance. At town meeting they vote in the best of everything, and we old timers have to pay the same as they do for everything that they want.

A couple of decades ago I got a telephone repair for some company that's way out in some farm area but mostly residential. Before Google Map and Mapquest and stuff. I'm driving up and down the road and I'm not seeing any business among the houses and finally a see a residential mailbox with the address I'm looking for. OK, I turn into a driveway that goes forever and ever but finally pull up past a six stall garage and a house, mansion that it just huge. Found the place and they've got a full time crew of grounds people. The reason for the company name was that the owners had it listed under one of their companies, probably tax reasons I guess. I get to the door, the wife answers and lets me in. They had a telephone system in the house, voice mail, auto-attendant, individual extensions in each room, multiple lines, gate openers, all of the bells and whistles. The husband was in Africa at the time, big game hunter hunting more trophies. In the Great Room, lion and bear rugs, stuffed giraffe, other stuffed stuff like a hippo, and whatever other big game stuff one hunts in Africa. Down in the basement on my way to the telephone system I walked through a wet bar area that had real elephant legs that formed bar stools. These people had some serious, serious, serious money. The high school age son and daughter were incredible snobs, but the mother, the wife was incredibly down to earth and friendly. As we're talking, she explains to me that she and her husband got tired of living in Chicago, so they bought ten acres from a farmer out southwest and built this incredibly huge mansion that loomed over the next biggest house. All of the homes in that area were on one acre lots and just huge homes themselves, but dwarfed by this home, mansion that just loomed over them in the close distance from behind all of them. The wife tells me that they wanted to get away from the Chicago hustle-bustle, and moved tens and tens and tens of miles and whole other county away. The problem was that all of the other households formed a "neighborhood association" and since she bought from the same farmer at the same time the developer that built all of those other homes bought that property, by Illinois law she was somehow obligated, required to join the same association and now found herself having to attend weekly or monthly home owners association meetings that she never had to attend when they lived in Chicago. And on top of that, the developer built a man made lake for water skiing and whatever else between the houses, and on the end that she was on there was an island just big enough to maybe park boats at and have small parties that the county deeded half to her property and the other half to the one acre house property on the other side of the lake...so that they could tax those properties more for owning an island. And guess what? Their mailbox wasn't brick. I might have found it easier had it been, but it wasn't. That is one big house. When I left and got to the county road and took a look, at least twice as tall as the next tallest, and three or four times as big as the next biggest. God bless them, I hope that they enjoy it...mostly.

So you upset some folks? Good for you. They should thank you for getting their blood pressure up to remind them that they're still alive. Some folks get pretty wound up over the most nothing things, and those are the folks that are fun to turn into a...hobby. Grin.

Mark

"So you upset some folks? Good for you. They should thank you for getting their blood pressure up to remind them that they're still alive."

Mark, sir, "Bro", if you'd "bust" up your dissertation by cutting it into smaller segments (paragraphs?) it would be more digestible. Grin

But your point is well taken.

Mark