We had 8 inches of snow last night and my repug neighbor doesn't have a

[Jokinomx]

snowblower. They live across the street and as I blowed my driveway and sidewalk they just looked so pathetic over there shoveling their backs away. As I continued down the side walk, my neighbor next to me was shoveling and I finished his drive (the snowplow pile) and finished up his side walk.... then around the corner to do the driveway and sidewalk of an elderly couple that can't clear their own.

As I finished three drives and sidewalks.... the repugs were just finishing....heheh...

I live on a BUSY corner lot and during the elections I put a Kerry sign on the corner. The next day... those repugs filled their yard with multitudes of repug signs.

Am I wrong to feel a sense of satisfaction to see them working so hard...while I helped other neighbors?



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[NNadir]

1. No.

[LiberalVoice]

2. Nope

Thats what liberals do...

[madison2000]

3. Nope not at all

You'd be wrong to feel a sense of satifaction if they had heart attacks but anything short of that is fine. Let them live the Repuke belief system.

[brainshrub]

4. Yes, you were wrong.

The right thing for you to have done was to help them first.

The meanest thing you can do to a political opponent is do something nice for them.

[Jokinomx]

12. I think your right.....

It would have been the most effective thing to do. To rise above the mediocre thinking of the masses... is a hard thing.

Thanks ... Next time I will do just that...thanks...

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[BlueJazz]

5. Well, Gee Whiz..Why don't they take some of those........

...HUGE tax breaks and go buy a snow-blower??

[Jokinomx]

13. I was thinking that same thing....LOL...

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[Redstone]

6. Nah. They'd have found some OTHER reason

to be pissed at you even if you HAD done their driveway. There's no satisfying THOSE people.

Redstone

[Jokinomx]

15. You may be right... but it would have been the right thing to do...

I had the time and the gas... I am not a Christian..but... it would have been the Jesus thing to do. No matter what how they felt afterwards... the satisfaction that I rose above would have been a good one.

I have a saying that I have told my children for years..

"Do the right thing because it is the right thing to do."

Live this simple rule and the world will be much kinder to you.

:toast:

[Redstone]

19. Well, there is that...

I tell my kids the same thing. And act that way myself.

I stand corrected. Besides, if the motivation was to get them cranked, up, it would have been better to drive them nuts by denying them the opportunity to badmouth you.

Redstone

[Bertha Venation]

7. "Am I wrong" -- It's not my place to judge.

But I guess that answer shows you my opinion. I can't judge but I can't turn off my reactions. :shrug:

[Jokinomx]

18. Bertha..

I do have a feeling of guilt. I helped two other neighbors and yet I have this sense of animosity to these bush backers. I can't help how I feel..I DON'T want to help them and yet I feel sorry for them in some way I guess. Brainshrub was right... I should have rose above and not held their lack of intelligence (my words, not brainshrubs) against them.

[Bertha Venation]

33. Well, Jokinomx, I always answer "yes" to "would you pee on * if he were

on fire," so maybe my opinions/feelings skew the curve just a little too much anyway. :hi:

[LoZoccolo]

8. No - they don't believe in cooperation.

They'd let people they don't even know starve because they think those people are lazy or just don't want to pay for it.

And people who study game theory will tell you that a system of cooperation can arise out of a policy of "tit for tat", where you reciprocate people who cooperate with you, and refuse people who don't. Perhaps these people across the street need to learn the rules of the game the hard way, especially since it's costing people their lives.

[Jokinomx]

20. Valid point...

I can't disagree with you either...

"Its HARD Work!" as shrub says....


Thanks for your opinion...:toast:

[Township75]

9. Well, it would be nice if Dems wouldn't resort to fossile fuels to...

remove snow, especially when repugs aren't doing it.

As far as how you feel, well, what they don't know wont hurt them.

[LoZoccolo]

11. No subject, just a picture.

[Jokinomx]

22. ROTFLMAO..... n/t

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[Jokinomx]

21. Oh ..your sharp...hehehe

You couldn't be more right.... yesterday I posted on peak oil...

Thanks for giving me the right perspective...

:toast:

[acmejack]

10. I have the tendency

But I remind myself they are still my brethren (of course I don't live next to Tom Delay, either). These are the very people we need to reach and persuade.

[Jokinomx]

23. Yep... I agree... n/t

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[DawgHouse]

14. No not wrong to feel satisfaction

But, I probably would have made a one-time-only offer to let them borrow my snow blower. I should add that I live in Florida so I'm not so smart about snow blower etiquette ;-) Now, if you want to discuss repug vs dem generator etiquette after a hurricane, I'm there!

[Jokinomx]

24. LOL.....

Thanks for the thoughts...Your point is also a good one...

I will have to ponder all these ideas and maybe next year ..since I hope that this is our last storm of the year.... I will do just that.... offer them the use....

but it would be just my luck one of them would lose a hand unblocking the chute and then I would be held liable....?

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[ernstbass]

16. Enjoy it!!

I got a kick just reading about it!!:evilgrin:

[Jokinomx]

25. Thanks..

You and I think alike... its just my heart said I should help them or offer to help them...but... of course I can't help everybody!!! They just make it easier not to thats all...:-)

:toast:

[kodi]

17. lease the snowblower to them, take a huge tax write-off & donate it to DNC

its the right thing to do.

[Jokinomx]

26. The BEST answer yet!!!

Thanks for the perfect answer... I laughed out loud as I read your response....

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[koopie57]

27. I think it is human

to have felt a little satisfaction. In our neighborhood there is a couple who had big bush signs on their yard. They never help others in the neighborhood, when they are helped they don't say thank you, and one time some people who use to live in the neighborhood brought one of their horses here to give the kids rides. These repugs called the cops.

I think you did right in helping those neighbors who needed it and would appreciate it and to help out as a neighbor those who were shoveling. I'm not sure about doing their driveway first when others in the neighborhood have showed you friendship. It seems like another example of cuddling up to the repugs while our own people have to make due. I think helping those who have helped you at times first and then give help to the repugs, but to put them first over your friends seems too much to me. But that is MHO. And kudos to helping your neighbors!

[Jokinomx]

30. Wise words...

Your correct also in what you say...

The first neighbor I helped...and have all winter.. bought a riding lawnmower last year... and he started to mow my lawn whenever he did his....as I stated I live on a corner lot and have a large yard. I thanked him and said I would return the favors this winter. The elderly couple around the corner have been living there since my wife was a little girl...(we are currently buying our house from my Father in Law) So your exactly right...help those that have a relationship with you first and then if possible, help others.

Thanks again for the advice...

:toast:

[MrSandman]

28. We had 5" and...

I don't have a snowblower or plow for my 50 yard driveway. :mad:

[Jokinomx]

31. So you can relate....

I know how hard it is to shovel.... the last time I had to shovel..I thought I would have a heart attack....

When I was a kid growing up in the wonderful Upper Penisula of Michigan... we used a scoop for our 25 yard driveway... it was still a lot of work...but but we managed... of course that was when I was a teenager in great shape... now in my forties ...whew... that would be work.

Thanks for the post..

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[MrSandman]

36. Tell me about it...

When I was 16,17, 18 and school was cancelled due to snow, I would chain up my truck and shovel and haul snow.

What a difference the decades make.

Of course, now, there is a snowblower or a snowplow on a truck or ATV for every 10th home.

[xmas74]

42. Where did you live in the UP?

[Jokinomx]

43. Both of my Parents and All of my Grandparents are from Negaunee...

I went to school there until 8th grade ... then we moved to Humboldt.... or West Marquette county. I was raised on a small Family farm to help support our needs... I was the second oldest of 16 children (one sister passed as an infant). So 15 of us in a four bedroom home with one bathroom...

But... I wouldn't change a thing... I have a absolutely wonderful group of people that I am traveling through this life with.

:-)

BTW.... Welcome to the D.U.... I hope you have found this site a fun and interesting place to be.

:toast:

I see your from Missouri.... are you originally from the U.P.?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

29. There are two roads you can take

The High road or the Low road. It's up to you which way to turn.

Me, I'd make the attempt to be the bigger person, and help them out.

But that's just me. (No guilt trip there, eh!) :evilgrin:

[Jokinomx]

32. Thanks for the advice PNS...

Of course even you would have had to draw some limits... I saw several others down the street shoveling.... so where do you stop helping people?

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[Prisoner_Number_Six]

34. You NEVER stop helping.

That's what it's all about.

[Randi_Listener]

35. Piss on those fucking turd.

They can eat shit out of a hotdog bun.

[Jokinomx]

48. Nothing like getting right to the point....:-)

I like your honesty...

Thanks for the response..

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[NightTrain]

37. Hell no, you weren't wrong!

Remember, Republicans believe in personal responsibility and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. You left them to do exactly that! (Hee-hee-hee.)

[Jokinomx]

49. As you have read.... several others have the same feelings..

Don't you like how this imbicile pResident unites our country...

Thanks for your response.

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[Hans Delbrook]

38. Are you kidding???

The only thing I would have done differently would have been to walk over (with my snowblower to let them think I was coming over to help) and tell them directly that I'm sure they wouldn't want help from a morally bankrupt, America hatin', non-troop supportin', abortion-lovin', godless democrat! Then I would have gone back to my warm house and toasted them from the window!

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[Jokinomx]

44. Your so funny....I love it...:-)

:toast: LOL

[GaYellowDawg]

39. You're not wrong.

They're Republicans. Therefore, they're self-sufficient. They don't NEED handouts or assistance. Your help would have been the moral equivalent of welfare. That would have been an insult to their culture, and I, for one, applaud your sensitivity to a culture other than your own.

:evilgrin:

[Jokinomx]

45. Several posts feel the same as you and a part of me agrees....

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[NV Whino]

40. Screw 'em

What have they ever done for you? (I'm a low road person myself.)

I think you did your good deed by helping your immediate neighbor and the elderly people. Snow blower or no, that's a hell of a lot of work right there.

[GalleryGod]

41. You can get a decent blower for 3 hundred bucks: Screw Em!

Never Forget! Never Ev-er Forget!:grouphug:

[Jokinomx]

47. Yes I agree... and most likely even for less if you search around a bit.

I know that this time of the year there is always a good deal on a blower in the bargain section of our local paper.

Thanks for your post..

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[Jokinomx]

46. Thanks for your thoughts...

If you read all the posts...several people agree with you. One last thing.... in the summer they don't mow there lawn but two or three times a year. They put their children's swing set in the FRONT yard and the yard is always a mess. So I guess your right....

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[Maine-ah]

50. can you come and do my driveway? my plow truck died.

[shugah]

51. the opposite story:

we moved into our house last summer. we had kerry/edwards bumperstickers on the cars, and none of our neighbors would talk to us.

we do not have a snowblower. when it snows, we all take a turn shoveling. i actually think of it as a good workout, so not really a problem.

anyway - last time we had a big snow, i was getting ready to go out and start shoveling. i looked out the window, and i'll be damned if my republican neighbor wasn't almost finished snowblowing the sidewalk in front of our house!

so, not sure if that is a point, but i did think it was very nice of him.

[gizmo1979]

52. hahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahha

hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahhahahaahhahahahahahahahahahahhaahah, HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I really hate repugs.

[bearfan454]

53. Not at all.

They're lucky you didn't blow it over on their driveway.