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November 15, 2006
The scam/con artists have been through my neighborhood once again. These are the nervous young men who go door to door trying to sell you on buying bogus magazine subscriptions or making donations to fictitious church charities. They do not have a Gwinnett County solicitor’s license displayed prominently above their waist, which means that they have been checked out by county government for driving violations and criminal background. These undocumented young men are often from other states and when they are arrested, have outstanding warrants and other nasty past history. We are
so
done with these scam/con artists over here that a description is being phoned to the police before they even get to the end of the driveway. Our COPS network is so good that everybody knows where the scumbags are in the neighborhood so the police can find them and have an interesting little chat.
My son suggested that I just open the front door holding a handgun by my side and ask the scammer, “So, how fast can you run?” I thought that was a pretty funny idea, but, unfortunately, not operable. The police tell us not to confront the scammers, just politely send them on their way, but report them. It did bring up an interesting item, however, which is further emphasized by the teenagers who rang doorbells at two o’clock in the morning on Saturday night. People really need to realize that a surprising number of homeowners are armed and it could be a dangerous thing if pranksters are setting off motion detectors running through yards in the middle of the night. Pranksters flattened my neighbor’s split rail fence trying to climb over it. I imagine that was pretty startling for kids that don’t think!
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The November 11, 2006 edition of
The Wall Street Journal had a pretty good front -page article on hair dyeing. The statistic they reported, that 54% of women dye their hair-- more in Europe, was interesting because I always thought it was a lot higher percentage than that. Look around at the people you know. In some age-appropriate groups I am about the only one with silver hair, having unfortunately looked like this since I was forty. I thought almost everybody over about the age of forty had dye jobs going of some description!
Men are dyeing their hair, too, in an effort to look younger and more virile. Of course, many of them look downright stupid, but they don’t think so. I’m remembering a friend of ours whose wife dyed his hair and turned him into Woody Woodpecker for a few months. We still laugh about that one. Took a long time to fade off. Personally, I think a man who is going gray is far sexier than a man who looks like he might have applied shoe polish to his head. Shoe-polish head isn’t sexy at all.
Many women dye their hair much too dark and for far too long. As age advances, skin tones soften and fade, so that dark brown dye job finally looks all wrong. Skin and hair do not match, which is a little jarring to observers. But, just who is going to tell a woman she needs to quit dyeing her hair? Or a man? Nobody in his right mind!
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There’s a GRTA bus driver out there who had a really bad day on November 14th and probably doesn’t even know it yet, but he will. He made the bad mistake of driving his bus northbound ON THE GRASSY MEDIAN of Peachtree Parkway so he could bypass lane traffic and get in the left-turn lane on Spalding Drive. It was his supreme misfortune to pass
on the left of our County Commissioner Bert Nasuti,
who was going home from work and waiting in the left lane to get into the left-turn lane that this brain-dead bus driver was heading for. Commissioner Nasuti couldn’t believe his eyes, but you better believe he got the license number of that GRTA bus! He fired off a missile note the next day requesting Gwinnett County Administrator
Jock Connell
and Gwinnett D.O.T. Chief Brian Allen
to file a loud protest with GRTA. Can’t wait to hear what happens.
We are particularly sensitive about our highway medians in Peachtree Corners. For the last three years the United Peachtree Corners Civic Association (UPCCA) has been operating the Peachtree Parkway Improvement Project, which collects voluntary contributions from the parkway landowners to mow all the 17 highway medians once a week. The highway medians are looking good and we intend to keep them looking that way and we don’t want buses trenching them. Buses and cars need to stay on the pavement!
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I knew I liked Coldwater Creek! Since the first of August, 100% of Coldwater Creek’s U.S. facilities are being powered through the purchase of renewable wind-energy certificates. With this action, Coldwater Creek has become the largest purchaser of renewable energy in the apparel industry and the 6th largest in the entire retail sector.
Dennis Pence
, the founder of the company, hopes they can stimulate a shift in the way all of us view our world and the precious environment in which we live and work. He hopes other companies will join this effort, adding leadership and commitment to initiatives which focus on the use of clean, renewable energy.
And besides this, Coldwater Creek sells great women’s clothes that don’t look like skankwear and offers fine customer service as well. It is one of the few firms that actually insists upon employees being courteous to their customers. Therefore, it is a pleasure to do business with them. Their leadership on energy conservation is another extra good reason to shop at Coldwater Creek.
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And, lastly, may I recommend an excellent movie to you? “The Queen” is a fabulous piece of work. I tend to be quite critical of many of the movies we are offered these days as not being worth the time or the money it takes to go see them, but “The Queen” is well worth your time and money. Thumbs up!
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Hope all is well and thanks for reading.
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