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most annoying thing about the slope

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  • rose
    rose
    I love it too, but there are still annoying things about it. I love my kids, and they annoy me often.
  • brooklynpotter
    brooklynpotter
    kensingtonmom wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]i don't hate children. i don't hate living near/with children. just because i don't HAVE any children doesn't mean i hate them. how would you feel if you found out you'd said that to someone who CAN'T have children, for any number of reasons people don't have kids. would you be proud of yourself?
    I know you can't have children and I think you stated you don't really want children or want what you would have to go through to have children. Totally understand and respect that.
    But that was not what I was referring to--it was just the usual knee-jerk response of some single people (who have not or choose not to have to figure out how to lug kids around) and making the obvious statement of I hate double strollers. I hate triple strollers. Some people want to have one child and that is fine, they don't have to deal with the hassle of lugging two. I am close to my sisters and wanted my kids to have siblings--the price i pay is the stroller situation (which I am very couteous with).

    But I do think the slope has a lot of brats that does go well beyond the usual toddler meltdowns.

    actually, i have *never* said i couldn't have children. i have said that for various reasons i'm not having any of my own. this does not mean that i don't love kids, or moms. but imagine, if you will, living down the street from, let's say, chuck e. cheese... imagine having stacks of kids and moms coming from there and walking by your house all the time?

    (and i think the place is ugly. i do. it looks like it should be in a strip mall. that's just my aesthetical opinion whether it's a cool place or not it makes the block look cheap.).
  • street shooter
    street shooter
    kosherdave wrote: I like Park Slope. A lot. I like the variety of places to eat, the people, the pretty damn clean streets, living on the park, running, biking in my nabe, walking up and down the streets looking at all the nice brownstones, especially the ones btw PPW and 8th that have the gas lanterns, and when it gets dark, I like to stroll around and look at peoples' creative entryways, I like the trees, especially along 3rd street, and the lack of constant sirens you get working in the city. I like going onto my rooftop at night and seeing the skyline all lit up, the Statue of Liberty, the Varazzano bridge at from a distance at night...
    Sure, there are some things that are a pain in the ass and it is expensive, but this is my nabe, my favorite nabe in the city and I plan to stay a while. You guys sure bitch and moan a lot. Try living somewhere else (and I don't mean somewhere else in NYC). I've lived all over the US and the world, and I reeaaallly like Park Slope. Some people just don't know how good they have it.
    Your so right. We have been bitchin a lot but I think most of us would rather be here than anywhere else. I think some of us like it because there is so much funny shit happening everyday to bitch about. It's a Brooklyn BitchFest.
  • eggcream
    eggcream
    Rude adults who can't bother to say thank you if you hold the door. I always say you're welcome anyway.

    Bratty kids who act out and clueless parents who don't reprimand them.

    Garish store front signs. I'd like a little uniformity and more subdued colors.

    Late night car honking.

    John Jay HS

    Rite Aid on 7th avenue

    People who steal flowers/plants or the whole damn pot front our front yard.

    I don't mind strollers all that much. I was a single stroller user years ago. Just don't leave them in the middle of the aisle while you're shopping. Pull them off to the side. Common sense people.
  • anonymous
    anonymous
    THE FOOD CO-OP is a cult. My boyfried used to belong there, and was kicked out because he couldn't do the "volunteer" hours. They treated him like S@#t.
    After he left, he actually felt like he was freed from Gitmo.
  • pitu
    pitu
    garfield girl wrote: THE FOOD CO-OP is a cult. My boyfried used to belong there, and was kicked out because he couldn't do the "volunteer" hours. They treated him like S@#t.
    After he left, he actually felt like he was freed from Gitmo.
    O BOO HOO. What "volunteer"?
    It's a membership organization with a work requirement - boyfriend knew the deal going in.
    :roll:

    One of the most annoying things for ME about the Slope is people bitching about the Coop. Join, don't join: I don't care how you get your groceries, and I feel lucky I have so many great options in walking distance.
  • anotherdayinbkln
    anotherdayinbkln
    i thought it was the old guy zooming around on his segway with a blinking light on the back of his helmet..

    i mean if youre going to go as far as a helmet and signal, you might as well burn a few cals and get a bike.
  • jjb
    jjb
    HE FOOD CO-OP is a cult. My boyfried used to belong there, and was kicked out because he couldn't do the "volunteer" hours. They treated him like S@#t.
    After he left, he actually felt like he was freed from Gitmo.

    Hmmm. While the Co-op's not my cup of tea, either, the work hours requirement seems like a very clear and basic requirement of membership—something your boyfriend was surely told about *before* he joined and surely *not* something any member could reasonably expect to blow off and still remain a member in good standing. As for the Gitmo comment, please louise ...
  • benelisa
    benelisa
    Who has the "Co-op macro" handy? :?: :evil: :lol:
  • laura
    laura
    Rose wrote: [quote=JoanJettofArc]least favorite thing:
    the woman breastfeeding at two-boots.
    See, I don't understand why anyone would eat in that place if you don't have kids. The food and service are both terrible, and it's filled with kids.

    I don't know about the table service, but I eat there all the time at the bar. I think the food is good and the bar staff at least are great.
  • anonymous
    anonymous

    People who congratulate themselves for not living in the suburbs, yet wish that people with the nerve to have children would move their inconvenient brats out to the suburbs, so the kids can grow up bored and frustrated there, then someday grow up and move to a city, where they can congratulate themselves for not living in the suburbs, yet wish that people with the nerve to have children...
    +1
  • femmedada
    femmedada
    8) no good dry cleaners????
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