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  • Nov 7, 2026, 11:45 PM

    I realize that people who can see can afford to be more careless than I can. And what I mean by that is they don't have to put things back in the same place every time. It doesn't matter if they move the tea kettle 9 inches to the right because they are going to be able to find it using their eyesight. It doesn't matter if they leave a package of bacon open when they go across the room to answer the telephone because they can watch to make sure that the cat or the dog doesn't steal it. They can leave garbage places and come back and pick it up later and throw it away. And all this is well and good until they practice the same behaviors in my house. I tried to be very patient and I tried to be understanding because I know for most people putting things back where they belong and throwing things away immediately when you are done using the packaging is not something they do in their own homes and in their own lives, but when they come to my house and they do these kinds of things, it makes about a 30 minute cleaning project for yours truly when the wheels come off of the wagon. This very frustrated Toot! brought to you by the mess I just cleaned up because someone has been using a little plastic bucket I had for garbage only they didn't tell me and the guest dog got on my table and threw trash everywhere and of course I only found it when my dog started bringing me garbage, and I couldn't figure out where it was coming from because I throw my garbage away immediately every time. Then I found the bucket! Which by the way had been chewed up into 1 million tiny pieces… So imagine cleaning up that mess when you can't see it. The mess is cleaned up, but I am still a little bit annoyed.

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 1:07 AM

    Also rereading my rant of earlier the bucket on the table wasn't for garbage, it was for decoration but it was empty so the person used it for garbage.

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  • Nov 7, 2026, 11:51 PM

    @ratking It was just a small little Halloween decoration that I had out and I'm sure that when the person did it, they were intending to take it out and dump it into the big trash or into my trash in the kitchen and they just used it because they were busy, but of course, then they forgot and I didn't know it was there or I would have dealt with it but now I'm really dealing with it

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  • Nov 7, 2026, 11:53 PM

    @ratking Right I couldn't figure out where all of this garbage was coming from and it wasn't anything gross like it was pop cans and they had sparkling water in them so it wasn't even like they were sticky, but I always throw mine away so I couldn't figure out where it was coming from and there was an older coffee mug from a drive-through place that was empty and I just was so confused and then I found the bucket and figured it out

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  • Nov 7, 2026, 11:53 PM

    @pawpower I think that's completely valid. In someone else's house, you follow their rules, even if they don't make sense to you. And that's before we get to why your rules do make sense for your house, and circumventing them is just asking for trouble!

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 12:28 AM

    @pawpower fair enough. it drives me mad when people don't put things back. they can be close but that doesn't matter. even my kid who lives with me doesn't do this! I am forever having to find things. I have told him more times than I can count

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 1:21 AM

    @bmoore123 @pawpower

    It irks me to no end when my oldest empties the dishwasher and then invents new places for things I told them about a dozen times. I can’t even imagine the mayhem if I couldn’t just rummage around and *look* for them.

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 1:22 AM

    @pawpower *sigh* I am always confused when people do stuff like this because... Who thinks that garbage belongs on top of a table anyway?

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 1:24 AM

    @amy0223 Oh i know exactly what happened, she sat down, put stuff in there fully intending to empty it. then getting distracted, forgetting and leaving it there. then her dog got on the table and destroyed everything which is what made the mess. Pica! Gotta love it.

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 1:04 PM

    @pawpower Man, what a mess, and a dog out of control to boot. I think I may have asked, is this container for garbage? Wow! I'm sorry that happened.

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  • Nov 10, 2026, 8:37 PM

    @pawpower sighted people are rubbish.

    I'd say it's rude to just use a random container nevermind leave it lying out. I'm not always tidy, but with blind colleagues I kept their stuff in known places. I'd also give a verbal and often email description of any new layouts where I was asked to help install tech.

    I grew up with a friend whose dad was blind so we learned from tiny about keeping walkways clear.

    I like your house rules sign. Maybe a prominent reminder on your door out too!

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 3:21 PM

    @pawpower All the +1's to this. All of them. @MoonCat and I feel the same way about things. People need to learn to respect that where they found it is where it belongs, whatever that might be.

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 3:23 PM

    @FreakyFwoof @MoonCat Also turn off the goddammed light when you are done using it so I don't pay for 5 days of electricity on lights I can't use. lol. I'm going to make one of those signs like 10 rules of the house.

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 3:24 PM

    @pawpower This is one of the reasons I wanted smart lights in my house so that when people do forget, I can get them all turned off from an app. There's also automation so that if everybody leaves the house, they will go off automagically. @MoonCat

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 6:04 PM

    @pawpower @FreakyFwoof @MoonCat I'm glad that mom drives by here enough to let us know because yes, this happens so much sometimes, heck one time it was somehow alight switch got flipped upstairs on accident by... one of us Iguess. But yeah, the light thing... ugh... som uch.

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