2005-07-09 - Seriously, what is up with Peterborough?:

Sometimes I am frustrated at my apartment. Not so much the place itself, as the location, and the neighbours. I mean, my place has its quirks, like most rentals, but i could certainly do way worse, and have seen way worse.

My neighbours are all dumb, and basically sit around and drink and smoke weed all the time. My next door neighbour lives with her boyfriend: she just turned 19 and she also just had her second child. And they got this huge dog, and neither of them work. Yay for breeders.

Most people in this town will agree that they have never seen as many teen mothers as they have in this town while doing groceries on a weekday. I mean, there seem to be tons of 16 year old girls pushing baby carriages around, smoking cigarettes and walking around dressed like Brittany Spears with the other teen moms they dropped out of high school with. Fine, have sex, I don't care: but for the love of god would you please use a condom?

Also, there seems to be a rule around here that if you are a dude, and it is 20 degrees celcius or higher outside, you MUST WALK AROUND WITH YOUR SHIRT OFF. Appropriate methods of carrying your shirt upon removal is to tuck it into your back pocket/belt loop, or wear it on your head like some kind of weird hat (seriously, what the hell?). Every dude has no shirt on: skinny teenagers; chunky fellers, and those guys that are old and not fat or anything but their skin is all loose and leathery on their body like their is something wrong with them and they have like 30 000 tattoos all over the place. Oh, and if you are a man of 50 years of age or older, you apparently CAN STOP WEARING DEODERANT and stink up entire stores with your BO. Thanks a lot, smelly men with Heavy Metal hair and/or ZZ-Top beards.

Okay, i am done venting. Thanks for listening!