Thanks, sweetheart. in Will Fly For Food

Am I the only one who literally cringes when I hear someone call me toots, sweetheart, babe, hon, gorgeous, ect.

Unless your outie and my innie meet regularly, or you have express permission from me, you have absolutely NO reason to call me by anything other than my name.

Not only is it gross having 60 year old men call me "hon" "sweetheart" or "babe", it's extremely disrespectful. I get it, I'm a girl. Moving ON.

As long as we're on the topic, street harassment HAS to stop. Revving your engine, catcalls, obscene hand gestures, whistle's, ect. Is this shit really necessary? Does this actually drop panties? If not, what is the purpose? "Look at me! I'm looking at you!" Once again, I get it, I have a vagina. MOVING ON.

The house we looked at the other night was kind of dumpy... It's kind of a slumlord type rental. There were all sorts of creative DIY fixes for stuff, which a few of them ended with us scratching our heads. It was obvious the owner (and we know who the owner is) did the absolute minimum to eek by and still collect a rent check.

"Oh, so you would pipe the gas in through here, and instead of go up another foot and put it in the attic you just... pipe it right through the bedroom. Interesting.

"Oh, that's just duct taped to the wall... that's a nice touch.

This house had a trap-door style attic entry on the back porch... but instead of having a solid wood door or something it had the frame... and a piece of fake wood linoleum that was rolling up. ...that's special. I bet that linoleum really keeps the critters and the damp out.

In reality there was a lot that we expected because we knew it was a rental, and we know exactly who owns it. But also the pictures online look much better than it did in reality. All we really wanted were solid walls, a solid foundation, and relatively decent appliances once they got cleaned up a bit (the freezer still had food in it - wasn't clean. The stove was disgusting. The dishwasher had mold and food in it). Well, it had decent appliances, so one out of three.
Guess we will keep looking.