[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

Bill Gunshannon billg999 at cs.uofs.edu
Thu Oct 25 16:00:52 EDT 2012


In article <Wregn2WJMXKz at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <nospam-09AF6C.16461925102012 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>> 
>> Is it because you remember clearing all that snow that you don't like a 
>> long drive then?  Or the lack of privacy?
> 
>    "privacy" is a great thing to have when you're breaking into somone
>    else's property.
> 
>    Not on mine, thanks.
> 
>    It's not that I don't like a long drive, but I consider it a cost
>    to be offset if I'm bidding on the house.
> 
>> 
>> In my early teens we moved into a house with large picture windows and 
>> had to get used to folks staring in.  We got good at out-staring them 
>> but it wasn't until the hedge matured that we could get any privacy.
> 
>    Why didn't you close the drapes?
> 
>    To reduce crime, folks need to be able to see the house, not see
>    into the house.
> 

Everybody can see everybody else's house here in the city where I currently
live.  Hasn't prevented breakins.  In fact, they are on the rise.  Biggest
difference in that respect between my current two houses is I can't use a
gun here.

bill

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