know what you mean. my neighbors are running a lawn care business out of there home. So they always have bags of mulch, flowers, trees thrown all around the front yard. it makes are street look so much worse.

[quote="Natural Mike"]
4) got stopped for speeding (49 in a 35...there were at least 5 or 6 cars around me going 55+) while going to visit some friends in Hinsdale - this is the 4th time I've been stopped by cops in my life - 3 of the times were on the same block in Hinsdale - dude let me go with a warning - my record remains clean

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Mike, I grew up in Western Springs, which overlaps with Hinsdale, and most of my family still lives in both of those towns.

All I can tell you is that the cops there have NOTHING better to do with their time then to pull people over for tiny speeding infractions. They are morons out there. hell when I was a kid a cop pulled my mother over on her bike and ticketed her for a broken light. At 6 pm in the summer.

PLUS the people of Hinsdale have NO concept whatsoever of stop signs. When I worked at my old job in lagrange I used to have to go to the bank in Hinsdale often and I would come back so frustrated by the driving habits of the townspeople that after a while I informed my boss I was never going to the bank for her again.

Yeah, Hinsdale can be a little ridiculous at times. Is it really necessary to use 2 squad cars when stopping someone for jaywalking (when there is no traffic)?

I went to the Reds game on Friday. They actually won a game!

I tried to see the Changes last night on their tour, but they didn't show up.

A fighting staff is really minor, white trash-ways.

But meth in the basement = not good.

So then yesterday, we go out all day so she can study etc. And when we get home around 5:30, they're out in their front yard, having something like a yard sale I guess. I say "I guess" because, while they did have a sign and a huge pile of craptastic furniture strewn about, they were:

1. Sitting on the furniture,
2. Shirtless,
3. Drinking 40's (seriously),
4. DRUNK,
5. Talking in voices loud enough for me to hear 2 houses down about "beating someone's ass down."

I went for my camera, but the battery is dead, and damn if I can figure out where I put the charger after the camping trip. Then I tried the cameraphone, but I couldn't get close enough without being obvious.

Dude, you live next to me and Brett on Pinecrest? These dudes are harmless, Kyle.

Yeah, as mentioned, they wave hello sometimes. That buys them a little credit. And I'm not calling for a torch-bearing, pitchfork-pointing Frankenstein hunt or anything. But do put a shirt on, do turn down the camaro rock, and do think twice about practicing your fighting skills in broad daylight, particularly when you're like 35, have a beer gut, and some world-class GAR tats.

Have a care...