The next decade....what's in store?
Musings of a yamfooted traveller still trying to shake off those last 20 pounds as she treks across the Caribbean
This is the text of a note I am leaving under my new neighbour's door this morning. He's already gone off to work....
Hello Neighbour,
We keep the gate closed because there are some dogs that roam the area and will come into the yeard. I usually have my door open when I'm here and have had to chase dogs out!
I know it's a bit tedious to get out of the car to open or close the gate, but I would be grateful if you could do this please.
I've spoken to ____ about getting the gate fixed so that it's easier to open and close it.
Thanks,
Yamfoot (from Jamaica)
Now tell me, if you come to live in a place where others are living already, don't you observe what the customs are and then act accordingly? I would, or I would ask questions. For several days now, when I come home, he is already here. He drives. I don't, but I will walk up from my apartment to go and lock the gate. So he sees it locked in the mornings when he is ready to leave before me, and he just drives out and leaves it open!
I had hoped that he would have gotten the hint by noticing that he finds the gate closed every morning, but he hasn't quite got it yet. And he's a doctor. Sheesh!
So if you were he, would you be offended by anything I've written in the note?
Posted by yamfoot at July 24, 2007 07:53 AMNo, that's a very tactful and polite way of phrasing your request; better than I would have done, for sure!
Posted by: titilayo at July 24, 2007 08:00 AMWas your article published in the Observer?
What do you think about Lara's return to the pitch?
Yay! It worked! The gate was closed when I reached home!
See, Dr Phil says "you teach people how to treat you". So I have taught him successfully.
@G-beth. Yes, it was in Sunday's Observer
Great that Lara is returning. You can't let that prowess fade away.
what page in Observer?
Posted by: Gela at July 24, 2007 09:31 PMDunno Gela. Somewhere in the Sports section.
The posting feature is kind slow, so I see you get impatient and click twice LOL.
Guess what folks? I just got up, looked outside and the gate was closed! Yipee!
Posted by: Yamfoot at July 25, 2007 09:13 AM