RANT/RAVE

Wake-up alarm

This is my first time calling your line and I hope you can help me — you’re my last resort. I live on Barclay between Bute and Thurlow, and for the last few years there has been a security or apartment alarm going off incessantly, all the time. It will ring for a couple of minutes and then go off. I just hope these people realize how they’re impacting the hundreds and hundreds of people who live in this area, who have shift work, who need to sleep during the day.

Anonymous Rantline caller

The sound of anger

To the occupant of 1380 Jervis: You think you can sing? Guess what? You can’t. Dental drills sound better than you. And when you decide it’s time to bless the whole neighbourhood with your banshee song by stepping onto your balcony to sing, it gets worse. Stop pissing off all your neighbours and stop embarrassing yourself. Shut up.

Anonymous

To my neighbour on Pendrell: I work mornings, starting at 3:00 a.m. When I do this, I need to wake up at 2:00 a.m. I find it difficult to sleep when you are playing your guitar until 11:00, 12:00, sometimes 1:00 a.m. Please have some consideration for your neighbours when they are trying to sleep, even on weekends. In most buildings, the quiet time is from 10:00 p.m. The walls are very thin. And please, for the love of God, no more Coldplay! There’s only so much of them I can take, and it certainly isn’t the same song played three times in a row.

Anonymous

Don’t baby your dog

This is a rant for people who walk around with their dogs in strollers. For the most part, dogs can’t get enough exercise, to my knowledge. Why would you put a dog such as a greyhound in a stroller? I actually saw that one day. Greyhounds are racing dogs — they like to run! Having a greyhound [living] downtown is pretty abusive anyway, because downtown is mostly small apartments. But a stroller? Come on!

Anonymous Rantline caller

Election fever

This is for my neighbour on Gilford, who is proudly displaying their ‘Obama ’08’ bumper sticker in their window: We live in Canada! See you at the polls.

Anonymous Rantline caller

Who’s the boob here?

As a society, we believe we are above the animal kingdom. Why? Because we have brains. What has all of our knowledge really brought us? Global pollution, terrorists, wars, breakdown of the family unit! This is for all those so-called liberal women breast-feeding in public! What a joke that is! Animals have the right mind to find a private, quiet place to suckle their young! They don’t go out and display for all to see! You should have a set schedule to feed your baby, and, as a good mother, you would make sure that it was a nice, quiet environment to feed him/her. Now go home and get supper ready for your husbands!

Angela

Whiff of consideration

This is a rant to all the people who come onto public transit smelling like an ashtray. I don’t care if you smoke or what you want to do, but if you come onto public transit, where some people choose not to smell, you should have the same decency — not to stink up the entire car or bus.

Anonymous Rantline caller

Waterfront waste

This is to all the gross pigs who are leaving garbage on Vancouver beaches. Show you have a little class and put your trash in the garbage cans provided! Thank you!

Bill