Posted by Mark - IN. on September 04, 2017 at 19:49:38 from (24.15.149.218):
In Reply to: I'm sorry posted by Morgan in ar on September 03, 2017 at 18:28:31:
A couple of decades ago I got a telephone repair for some company that's way out in some farm area but mostly residential. Before Google Map and Mapquest and stuff. I'm driving up and down the road and I'm not seeing any business among the houses and finally a see a residential mailbox with the address I'm looking for. OK, I turn into a driveway that goes forever and ever but finally pull up past a six stall garage and a house, mansion that it just huge. Found the place and they've got a full time crew of grounds people. The reason for the company name was that the owners had it listed under one of their companies, probably tax reasons I guess. I get to the door, the wife answers and lets me in. They had a telephone system in the house, voice mail, auto-attendant, individual extensions in each room, multiple lines, gate openers, all of the bells and whistles. The husband was in Africa at the time, big game hunter hunting more trophies. In the Great Room, lion and bear rugs, stuffed giraffe, other stuffed stuff like a hippo, and whatever other big game stuff one hunts in Africa. Down in the basement on my way to the telephone system I walked through a wet bar area that had real elephant legs that formed bar stools. These people had some serious, serious, serious money. The high school age son and daughter were incredible snobs, but the mother, the wife was incredibly down to earth and friendly. As we're talking, she explains to me that she and her husband got tired of living in Chicago, so they bought ten acres from a farmer out southwest and built this incredibly huge mansion that loomed over the next biggest house. All of the homes in that area were on one acre lots and just huge homes themselves, but dwarfed by this home, mansion that just loomed over them in the close distance from behind all of them. The wife tells me that they wanted to get away from the Chicago hustle-bustle, and moved tens and tens and tens of miles and whole other county away. The problem was that all of the other households formed a "neighborhood association" and since she bought from the same farmer at the same time the developer that built all of those other homes bought that property, by Illinois law she was somehow obligated, required to join the same association and now found herself having to attend weekly or monthly home owners association meetings that she never had to attend when they lived in Chicago. And on top of that, the developer built a man made lake for water skiing and whatever else between the houses, and on the end that she was on there was an island just big enough to maybe park boats at and have small parties that the county deeded half to her property and the other half to the one acre house property on the other side of the lake...so that they could tax those properties more for owning an island. And guess what? Their mailbox wasn't brick. I might have found it easier had it been, but it wasn't. That is one big house. When I left and got to the county road and took a look, at least twice as tall as the next tallest, and three or four times as big as the next biggest. God bless them, I hope that they enjoy it...mostly.
So you upset some folks? Good for you. They should thank you for getting their blood pressure up to remind them that they're still alive. Some folks get pretty wound up over the most nothing things, and those are the folks that are fun to turn into a...hobby. Grin.
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