Fortunately, that white PVC pipe out through the wall in the "scene" shot *is* my sewer line, goes about 10 feet out of the house and then into the septic. Which got pumped last year after about, what, 15 years of residency... and there wasn't much in it. I guess I'm pretty conservationist in, uh, that department too. But that system will probably be fairly easy to debug, as such things go, when the time comes. Ewww. . _H*
Good natured kidding aside, that shows you're careful about what you put down the drain. My home or especially my former condo on a municipal system, I didn't really care *what* went down the drain. My hobby farm septic tank I get pumped every Spring. Unlike my regular house, I *never* put any paper or coffee grounds down the drain. The tank pumper is actually a very friendly, cheerful fellow, considering his line of work. He claims the best way to destroy a septic field - requiring expensive excavation and installation - is to regularly flush coffee grounds and cigarette butts into the tank
ought to be composting the coffee grounds and smoking is for tossers. Growing up our house had a septic system and we never had problems, and we were 5 ft above sea level (at high tide). Of course, we didn't indiscriminately flush stuff down the toilet either.
The composting season up here is quite short, due to our bitter cold winters. So I just end up tossing the grounds Never smoked, but plenty of folks do. When I purchased the hobby farm, I didn't even bother with the original septic field system. Had a quick inspection performed on the tank and it was a total loss, decades of sludge, cig butts, etc, had entered the field So I had the tank removed and a new field system installed. The house was also a disaster so I had it razed and a new one built. Not sure how folks live like that: broken windows with pillows stuffed in, obvious rodent infestation, etc etc. But they had money for smokes ...
Yeah, it's kinda short here too, though not as short as up your way. My mum's a realtor and you'd be disgusted by some of the stuff that people have "put up with". Some of the foreclosures that she takes clients to are beyond nauseating.
These folks made a choice how to live. Who are we to "educate" them or help them? Nobody holds your hand in the Real World to protect you from your mistake(s). I just put it on my "s*** happens" list and ignore it :lalala:
It's just shocking how they choose to live. If they wanna urinate on the walls and carpet of their house I'm not gonna stop them. Of course, if they're destroying property values by doing what they're doing a lot of people would beg, rather vehemently, to differ. I can't blame them for that.
You can also walk over to a pig lounging in manure, pick it up, dress it in nice clothes, but it will still look like a pig, sound like a pig, and more importantly, smell like a pig The housing burst bubble really is our fault. We had no business - in the strictest sense - of creating a subprime market and putting bottom feeders into nice middle class homes that they had no intention of looking after. At least I can afford upscale condos and homes, and pick and chose where I live. I've had co-workers go through the horror of having bottom feeders move in right across the street, or next door. Once they turn violent, you're in deep s*** What I find really cute is how when they finally lose the home, they take off in the middle of the night. But they leave a "parting gift" and not pee soaked walls. They'll put a dog or cat in a closet, close the door, and let the poor animal starve to death. I say track down the bottom feeders that did that, then lock *them* in a room with no food or water. Of course, I wouldn't let them actually starve and die, just leave them for 3-5 days to give them a good idea of what the poor innocent animal went through
Ever heard of "Home Rage"? I hadn't until today. Las Vegas Now | Realtors Seeing Disturbing Trend with Foreclosed Homes Aren't people lovely?
The less you use, and if everyone were to follow suit, the costs would have to increase per unit to maintain the balance sheet of your water company. So in a monopoly setting, like your water company, conservation gets you higher costs.
The note that the guy left really says it all. He has accepted NO responsibility for getting into the mess he's in. It's all other people deceiving him, yada yada yada. That's really the problem here. A combination of manipulative greed and stupidity. It's sad really.
