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Sigh...
[Read the article: Shopping for carbon credits]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let me just say: Ms Ellison, you brought TWO kids into a dangerously overpopulated world. Not that they aren't wonderful kids, and not that you aren't a great mom; it's just such things are sort of irrelevant. Overpopulation magnifies every environmental problem there is. The world's human population has to decrease; if we don't do it by choice, the Four Horsemen will do it by force. But the fact is, you have TWO kids. You'd better be ready to sacrifice A LOT for those kids, lady... - "there's so much we could do, from changing more light bulbs to installing solar panels. But frankly, like most other Americans, we're not up to that level of sacrifice."- ISN"T GOING TO CUT IT!! Driving a Pious doesn't mean jack.
Even if you do EVERYTHING ego-green-vegan-enviro perfectly, you still aren't really helping matters. Have ONE kid, and do EVERYTHING right; then MAYBE you could argue that somehow you're part of the solution rather than part of the problem. Two, and you're buying carbon indulgences: I just don't think so. Three+; well I guess one's attitude amounts to either 'why postpone the inevitable apocalypse' or 'head-in-the-sand' (or up-the-ass).
Please stop at two kids, and don't drive 4 blocks because it's f***ing RAINING!! JESUS H!! If you want a clean conscience, don't worry about the offsets, get to work on the real-life eco solutions: Solar power, solar heat, bike instead of car, graywater system in your house, vegan lifestyle, vegetable garden, ZERO or ONE kid(s). Buying green legislators will work about as well as buying carbon offsets. It's fine as a bonus, but it's not a solution. Getting a clue would be more helpful.
Last, and least: Yeah- skip Pollution, Greed, & Electriciy's fake carbon offset program.
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Genius!
[Read the article: My new roommate arrived ... with mom attached!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"there are alarming similarities between moms and seasoned con artists."
A line worthy of Mr. Blue.
Seriously, if you must go away, HIRE a friend to stay in your place while you're gone.
Something sounds very fishy with these two. If you can afford it, a private detective might be in order.
Have you informed your travelling housemates what they've inflicted on the household?
How does the landlord feel about it? I wouldn't like it a bit. Very weird indeed.
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"Mark"
[Read the article: My new roommate arrived ... with mom attached!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]is the term that comes to mind, and it sounds like there's a few of you out there in SalonLand. CosmicMojo, do you encounter a lot of grifters? Have you gotten this far in life without ever being the target of a con? Then I guess your Mojo works. The rest of us have to watch out! I manage to be generous most of the time, but after years of being a soft touch I've learned a lot about people who take a yard when you give them an inch.
"Unless there really is something unnerving about how these two new renters are behaving" - well, clearly there IS - Reluctant Host felt compelled to seek advice about the situation! The words Uncomfortable, Frustrated, Nevous, and Helplessness are clues here.
Maybe this is a mother/daughter tag team, maybe not. America seems to produce a lot of people with personality disorders - some are mild, just people with inappropriate boundaries; some are full on sociopaths who get away with their cons for years. There was an article in SFGate yesterday about a particularly pernicious con - "Police seek local victims of alleged 'Black Widow'" .
The phrases doesn't understand why her presence is an imposition and defensive and secretive are cues that something's up. Maybe they're just an ordinarily dysfunctional mother and daughter, Mom's well-meaning nose is in everything and Daughter can't escape so she retreats into secrecy and defensiveness. Maybe the illness is even mom-induced. Who would be comfortable with a dynamic like that moving in to their apartment? And that's a relatively mild scenario. A far worse one would be your DL, passport and valuables gone and a $10000 credit card bill. Granted that's unlikely, but it's not THAT unlikely. Virtually all of these different housemate-from-hell stories have happened to people I know.