My own disclaimer...with apologies to a few....

[D A M O N]

This is a mess.  I guess it's time to stick my foot in the crap, too.  
  You people act like this is your only thing to do each day.  Keep tabs on the others language, make sure that the GCNA is living up to your imaginations, argue the finer points of grammar and the latest gossip.
   I moved here because my friend (who is on this listserve, but I'm sure would want to remain nameless) went on and on about how wonderful it was to find a real ol' fashioned neighborhood, where people knew each other, were friendly to each other, and cared about the place where they lived.  It seems its the other way around.  To read 90% of this is to subscribe to some of the most self absorbed, unfriendly blather online.  I can't believe you people choose to berate each other like this!  This listserve is informational, to be sure, but it is also seems to be a convenient coffee clatch for the few who are interested in barking epithets about political preference and complaining about their fellow neighbors financial foibles.  (Did no one feel it shameful to be broadcasting to the entire neighborhood that your neighbor had likely fallen on hard times and was having stuff repo'd?  I'm sure all of you would be reaching for your lawyers phone number if I tattled your
 embarrassing news to the entire Association.)
  I'm very grateful for the few of you who I've met and who have taken the time to say Hi when I'm walking my dog, or invite me over for cocktails at the holidays.  And that's a very small number of you.  The rest of you have completely turned me off to wanting to participate in anything related to the neighborhood, for fear of either turning into you or becoming the target of your obviously unfettered wrath.  I'm sure this will land me in the latter with most, and to the few I mentioned above - I hope this doesn't shake our standing with each other.  I look forward to many a 'roundaout gathering and Christmas party with all of you.
Damon

 		
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