> Not to mention arrogant and snotty, with their bible
> thumping values and "I go to the Mormon church therefore I
> am better than you ifedels" attitude. And, nothing against
> Mormons, since over 90 percent of my street is Mormon,
> but...

I was about to say, if you had a problem with them you're definitely living in the wrong town. :>

> My street is crawling with lousy little heathen children who
> are nothing short of the devil's spawn

I don't think this is necessarily specific to Mormons, but rather any religion that encourages its followers to spawn as many ankle-biters as possible.

Around here, there's a fad wherein parents put little stickers on the back of their giant freakin' SUVs with little stick figures - usually one for each of the parents, and one for each of their 4-5 kids. Sometimes they even continue the line-up halfway across the back of their rear window, adding up cats, dogs, etc. Every time I get behind one of these people on the freeway I know exactly what kind of people they are.

Glenna and I are planning on having 1 kid. One. We'll be able to send this child to college, give them a happy childhood, ensure that they're taken care of, etc. Anyone who is having 4+ children needs to learn about the proper use of birth control, and practice it.

Of course, as kids in our family seem to run in 2's, it's possible that we would end up having another one. Beyond that, though, I've never understood why so many people have more kids than they're capable of taking care of. I kind of think it's some sort of status symbol, a perfect accessory to their never-been-off-road SUV.

Yeah, it really doesn't have to do with them being Mormon, but it just stands out in my case, since all the jerks on my street are people who go to the Mormon church...honestly, I can't stand people who use the Bible and God as an excuse to behave poorly...

One kid is enough for me too. I don't plan on having anymore, though you never know...but I highly doubt it. The futre does funny things to people sometimes...*laughs*

Our family certainly did come in two's, didn't it...*laughs* And we are all spaced apart pretty evenly in age too...You think our parents planned that? *laughs*

I have known most the people in your area for a long time, and I have to say that they all had this harmony going up until the past few years.

You can bless your lucky stars though that you don't have our neighbors. Until they were recently evicted from the ghetto rental trailer next door, they ran this wonderfully cultish religion. Women were not allowed outside without men. There was only one man... he worked 8 hours a day... that's quite the dilema. Anyhow, the girls were only allowed to wear dresses, nothing that wasn't a full length. They weren't allowed to speak with my sister, who is their age, because my parents allowed her to violate the rules of their belief system (honestly, who in this day and age believes that a woman is man's property in America... oh wait, I probably don't wanna know). The one time one of them did actually sneak out and come to our house we found out that they grew marijuana in their house, both daughters were named Sadie, and that he didn't send them to school, but he wasn't certified to do home teaching.

When we called CPS the next day he was protected on all fronts except possession of marijuana, for which he got a couple days in prison for... because he claimed all the above was a function of his religious beliefs. Including forcing his daughters to consign to his religious beliefs. I swear I thought it was going to turn out like that guy in California who raped and killed his wife and all 7 kids. Luckily paying his rent wasn't part of his religious beliefs either.

Then there are the neighbors who's 10 year old son shot through the back window of my old car with a gun he took out of his dad's gun cabinet when his dad was gone. We call CPS a lot... maybe I should just leave it at that. Anyways, then the guy had the audacity to come over to our house while he was heavily intoxicated and tell my sister who was washing her car on our front lawn in at 2 in the afternoon on a friday that if she didn't turn down her worthless music he would shoot her radio. I'm so proud of her, she replied... To do so you would have to step foot on our lawn because it is behind my car, and along with your intent to do damage to property and brandishing weapons and my current request that you vacate our property, I would be entitled to use deadly force and run your redneck ass over with the car to protect myself.

I was in my bedroom and didn't her radio, but I heard him yelling at her...

Anyway, those were our neighbors. God I miss the blue hair that used to live next to us who was scared of every little thump. She never threatened to shoot things!

Guess that's what we get for living out here in the home of country music's inspiration.

You mean the strange lady that went outside in the middle of the night to do laundry doesn't live there anymore? *laughs* I swear...that house next to you should "accidently" burn down or something...Ha ha ha...Okay, enough giving you ideas...

Honestly, I'm glad I live where I live and I think we all have our "strange" neigbors...I remember once time when Arlie, the man who live just around the corner, got drunk and nearly shot Rodney, Gary's youngest son. He was outside, drunk as a skunk, and trying to target shoot in his back yard with a .22. Unfortunatly, Gary's back yard and our back yard are directly in the firing range of Arlie's back yard...LOL Arlie, bless his heart is a good man with a bad problem, but I won't ever forget my mom rushing us all inside yelling "Arlie's drunk again! He's got the gun!" *LMAO* Sometimes living outside of city limits can be detramental to your health.......