What's the most egregious violation of proper decorum you've witnessed today?

I pissed in a Aquafina bottle and poured it out my window since to use the bathroom I need to put on pants and walk through the backyard. I’m the only person I have seen today.

I just woke up.
I find my lack of pants appalling.

People in my neighborhood think that just because they are walking their dog and 5:30 am no one will see them…..WRONG!! At least wear a hat! Sheesh!

Me, not wearing pants in my own bed! No, I have not stepped outside my own door today.

@Cruiser – Were they naked? Or was the bedhead that bad? :)

I just came back from grocery shopping. The worst I saw was a woman blocking the strawberries while yammering on her cell phone.

@tedibear I think I would have to get up earlier to catch the naked dog walkers!! LOL Bed head does not begin to describe the creations on top of their head! OMG! XD

I went outside to collect the trail camera SD card while wearing only Reeboks, underwear (briefs), and my deer fly hat.

(Now ponder Genesis 1:27.)

Hmm… thinking back on my morning it seems that everybody I have encountered has been reasonably polite.

OMG, it must be a sign of the apocalypse!

YoBob, I hope it wasn’t you I saw this morning throwing that Styrofoam cup out the window ;-) And widespread politeness must surely herald the end.

Let’s hope we have an atrocity-free Friday.Thanks, all.

@picante – Certainly not! I would take myself out behind the wood shed and self-administer a sever beating if I ever caught myself doing something so thoughtless.

Happy Friday!

I was woken up by from a local news station I subscribe to saying that somebody I didn’t even know had been found and I didn’t even know they were lost. That makes me grumpy.

[Edit] a text from the news station.

That’ll be me when I farted in the cat’s face this morning.
The look on her face was one of startled ignorance.

@ucme… LOL! We had a kitten foisted upon us. We’re falling in love. She likes to sleep with us. She’ll crawl all over my head before she falls asleep though. The other night, about 3 a.m. she farted right in my face from about two inches away. GAG! I woke up instantly! And banished her to bathroom!

It might not be decorum, and it’s not out there in the world because I’m at home, but I’ll submit this: my next-door neighbors, a pair of charming and delightful young people, have had a low-battery warning beeping in their bedroom smoke alarm for months. Their bedroom faces our driveway and the south side of our house. Twice a minute a shrill electronic chirp sounds. With the windows open in warm weather, it can be heard from every room in my house. My son, who has just been here for a visit, had to sleep with earplugs because of it.

And it has been beeping since before he was here in February; even with the windows closed, it is sharply audible throughout one side of the house, from bedroom to kitchen to dining room and living room. Every 30 seconds, 24 hours a day, for six months!

Last week I took the young couple a baby present because she is due in a few weeks. I asked them about the beep. “Oh, we have to replace a battery,” the husband said sheepishly. Whereupon I grinned and handed him a 9v batter with a bow around it.

We all waited tensely for the next few hours, but no change. It’s still beeping. By now I think they will never replace it. My son says a low battery can go like this for a very, very long time before it finally gives out.

The couple are so nice, I don’t want to antagonize them or embarrass them further, but there are days when I think it’s going to drive me mad.

Is that egregious enough to qualify?

@Jeruba, an incessant alarm is sufficiently egregious. How on earth can they stand it? Maybe their child will feel an innate calling to become a fireman (or a battery salesman). ;-)

@Jeruba – Just show up on their doorstep with a ladder and offer to help them change that battery that they have been having trouble with.

I simply can’t imagine, @picante. These are just about the best neighbors we’ve ever had, and they don’t play loud music, party late, leave cars idling in their driveway for hours while they tinker under the hood, blow motorcycle exhaust into our windows, barbecue on their front lawn, blow their leaves onto our lawn, or fight at theatrical volume, all of which we’ve had. And it’s not as if the beeping were part of an activity they were enjoying, like watching TV. I just think they’ve grown deaf to it, and my question and the free battery were not hints enough.

They are both at work most of the day, and we are here all the time, hearing it.

@YoBob, that would be a good idea, except that both my husband and I are tottery enough on ladders now, with our various bad backs and still-healing fractures, that we have to ask someone else to help us with those things. It did occur to us that they don’t know what to do. But the sound is designed to annoy!

I keep hoping their landlord will stop by and realize that a dead alarm is not protecting his property.

Just go ask them, straight up @Jeruba…

@Jeruba – I guess you could always ask them if they could help you with something since you have a bad back and can’t do it yourself. When they ask you what they can help with, you can direct them to their smoke alarm… ;)

<g> That’s good, @YoBob! I love it.

Yes, I should just go ask them. It’s not like we’d be asking them to change their lifestyle. Most neighbor annoyances are a matter of lifestyle—as I’m sure ours are because we are total nightowls, and I don’t really want them to reciprocate by asking us to turn out our lights at midnight.

Which lights would that be?

Kitchen, living room, bedroom…

Just pull the drapes…

Impossible in the kitchen. Anyway it’s not an issue that’s been brought up. I’m just saying I don’t really want to invite a return critique of our routine, which doesn’t follow conventional hours.

I don’t think it’s quite the same thing….surely they don’t have a preference for a constantly beeping smoke detector, do they?

Umm… recanted :D

Postscript: It stopped! O frabjous day! It must have been a major weekend project for the young man to climb up on a chair and install the battery I gave him, but as of yesterday morning—Sunday—the beeping is over. Joy! Rapture! Relief! Feels so good when it stops.

I calculate that that thing beeped approximately 525,948.766 times. That’s the number of minutes in a year, and we listened to it approximately twice a minute for approximately half a year.

You conjured the happy ending on Fluther. Silence is golden!

I AM SO HAPPY FOR JERUBA!!!!!!