Except for another visit from a hummingbird peering in through the window, the patio remains free of nesting birds. That last solution (scary tape wrapped around a balled-up plastic grocery bag, dropped into the eave) seems to have worked.
It’s beginning to look like I might have to try that scary tape on Red Light, because something she saw on the residents’ facebook page triggered her into posting yet another pathetic comment …… This one directed at her favorite target — the Baker, AND a new target — the Talker.
At least, her sentence structure is better; but she keeps saying things like "Okay" and "If that’s the way you want it", like it’s over, but it’s never over, she persists, like those birds did.
Inasmuch as simply deleting RL’s comments isn’t deterring her any, I decided to respond to her comment, fully knowing it would be poking the bear.
Sympathy is obviously what she’s trying to elicit from her poor poor pitiful me act, which reminds me of what someone said to me back in the day when I was weak, unillumined, feeling sorry for myself. I was told, "If you’re looking for sympathy, you’ll find it in the Dictionary between Shit and Syphilis, and it will do you about just as much good".
Best advice I've ever been given. The dose of reality I needed to pick myself up, get on the road to enlightenment; so, instead of deleting RL’s comment, I poked her.
That one must have stunned her, because she didn’t come up with an immediate retort, which pause was just long enough to give me time to block her from viewing and commenting on our page.
I got the last word which I know, control freak that she is, is going to drive her up the wall.
I also preempted her next move, which surely would be to call her son, have him post to our page for her, so I blocked her and her enabling son.
With neither she, nor her son, having access to viewing our page, I can almost feel her frustration at now having no place to watch, get triggered and vent.
"If you’re looking for sympathy, you’ll find it in the Dictionary between Shit and Syphilis, and it will do you about just as much good".
ReplyDeleteI will be using this line.
I had a friend years back always complaining about her life and asking for advice from everyone but then never taking it. I finally told her that she was like a car with a flat tire; it still drives but it's got problems that will only get worse. So I said, "Keep driving around like that and see where it gets you."
I had a friend like that once as well. I'd throw her a lifeline when she needed it, she'd catch it but then later say "I don't know about this line", toss it, but then start all over, ending up back at needing a lifeline. I chalked her up to a waste of my time and left her behind to, like your friend, fend for herself.
DeleteI think some people live for the drama and don't really want help.
DeleteWord!
DeleteI thought your comments were very restrained. She clearly has major issues.
ReplyDeleteI was unemotional and logical. She, on the other hand, was coming from pissed off that none of us are reacting the way she wants us to. She's block now. So be well and be gone.
DeleteSad and scary.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe I didn't see RL was this close to the edge when she was living here. I knew she was bossy, a control freak, liked to stir up trouble between neighbors, but I didn''t spot the crazy in her.
DeleteHopefully that will be the end of all that drama now!
ReplyDeleteI was having fun verbally sparring with her, but the Baker wanted RL blocked so we won't hear from her again.
DeleteShirley--NEVER engage with an irrational person. I think you may have forgotten that rule of life. Deleting her messages is the best thing to do. If you continue to delete, she has no other way to communicate, and no one can keep this nonsense going.
ReplyDeleteDelete wasn't working, she'd just continue posting and I'd have to continue deleting; so, at the behest of the Baker, who wanted RL's complaining about her to be over, I banned RL from the site. But to tell you the truth, I was enjoying her irrationality, found it comical.
DeleteI was just about to suggest blocking her from the site until I got to the end of your post and saw you did just that. Serves her right for being such drama queen. She doesn't live there anymore and shouldn't be posting on there any longer anyway.
ReplyDeleteI don't think she ever imagined being blocked as a consequence of her actions. Poor thing probably sees it as more proof that we don't like her, rather than to stop her attacking residents.
DeleteHopefully, she and her son will move their crazy elsewhere from now on. Pardon my ignorance, but what does "51-50" mean?
ReplyDeletePolice Code for mentally ill individual. Someone having an episode, might be a danger to themselves and possibly others.
DeleteI don't know how you have your Facebook page set up, but if you change it to a private group you have more control over who can be on it.
ReplyDeleteA group is too much trouble. Now that I know how to ban a person, that will suffice. The residents, their families and friends enjoy and leave respectful comments. RL was an anomaly I highly doubt I'll ever run into again.
Delete"If you’re looking for sympathy, you’ll find it in the Dictionary between Shit and Syphilis, and it will do you about just as much good". That's brilliant advice & perhaps should have been Shared with Baby Reindeer too? *LOL* Good for you, and I do assume correctly then that 51-50 was Police Code there fort a Mentally Ill Call. Here it's a 918. I'm sure every Jurisdiction has their Codes for the type of Call, especially helpful for a Behavioral Health Call so the response can hopefully be more moderated to account for someone's unstable condition Mentally and Behaviorally. Otherwise it would very much go sideways fast.
ReplyDeleteI found it telling that RL understood what 51-50 meant well enough to try to turn it around. She must have previously been labeled 51-50 and under care.
DeleteI had to look up 51-50. She definitely can't stand being on the outside looking in.
ReplyDeleteNow she's on the outside and can no longer look in, because she's blocked, which is going to drive her completely mad.
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