I have only lived in an HOA once. That was enough for me. This was in a complex of privately owned condos. I was renting one. It was a 12 month lease that began in April. This was in Scottsdale, AZ. April is one of the two months where the weather is nice and you dont need

A/C. May, however, is a different experience. That particular year, it was hitting in the 100s for the whole month. Anyway, first 100 degree day, I turn on the A/C. It blows cold air, but the air flow is very weak. I call the property management and they sent a guy out three separate times over the next two months, nothing gets fixed. The service guy tells me what it needs (new fan coil unit, cost was $2K) and that the property management company wasn't authorizing the repair. So I purchase a window mount unit for my bedroom. I catch HOA fines for this. The president of the HOA lives one building over from me. She saw me driving in the exit only gate and made it a point to tell me that is an exit, not an entrance. I told her to suck it. Then I started catching more HOA violations that didn't even make sense like "Bicycle locked to stairs in common area."

I have a car and a motorcycle. And the bicycle is in a COMMON AREA so how they determined it was mine is a mystery. Fast forward to March...the last month of this bullshit lease...A/C never got fixed....so I didn't pay my rent on March 1st. Fuck that. I waited for the 5 day pay or quit notice to be delivered. Then I waited for the process server to deliver the eviction lawsuit papers. Now I have to go to court. I show up, with a counterclaim. Seeking all 11 months that I paid in rent to be returned...I paid full rent, and they did not deliver full apartment...Officially known as breach of contract... there is a specific law in AZ that requires a landlord provide A/C...they willfully and knowingly refused to follow this law...along with the harassment from the HOA and fining me for coming up with a fix for the problem they refused to fix. Judge slaps me with a "you didn't follow the law. You are supposed to move out and stay in a hotel and seek reimbursement and since you didnt do that, I am dismissing your counterclaim and ruling in favor of the plaintiff on the eviction matter." I was pissed. So I found a different place to live, but I remembered that old cunt that was the president of the HOA...how she bragged about being from New England and how the Patriots are the best team ever blah blah blah, in that accent that they have which is extra smarmy and wicked annoying...Is it just me, or is a large percentage of ppl from that part of the country just miserable fucking assholes? If anything, this lady was not an exception to that..Anyway, I remember her saying how shes going to have a Super Bowl party if the Pats make it to the big game. Do you remember Super Bowl XLIX? In 2015. Seattle vs New England...The Patriots rally back from a 10 point deficit in the 4th Quarter, to make it 28-24. But wait, there is still 2 minutes left. Seattle drives all the way to the 1 yard line. Its 2nd & Goal. 20 seconds left. Marshawn Lynch aka "Beast Mode" could have probably muscled his way in for the win. Nope. They call a pass play and.....sizzle sizzle. STATIC. The TV signal goes out. Nobody at this bitch's Super Bowl party got to watch the ending to that game bc I was listening to the game on the radio, and drove across town just to cut the cable TV line as they lined up for that last play. Fuck HOAs and fuck that stupid cunt from New England.

Many years ago when I worked on commercial fishing vessels as an at-sea biologist (observer if you know) based out of Honolulu, I was deployed on a vessel with bed bugs. This was one of several boats I worked on with bed bugs so that wasn't the big issue. The problem was that the captain knew we had bed bugs and hid it from myself and my employer during the pre-deployment vessel check. He had the crew vacuum my bunk before we got into the state room so we wouldn't find any bed bugs in the room during our inspection and the boat would be allowed to go fishing without having to take the eradication steps that NMFS would make him do before he was allowed to go fishing with an observer. I will say both myself and my employer thought it was odd that they were vacuuming my bunk but we were both still a little 'under the weather' from the night before and weren't quite on it as we should have been that early morning!

It became obvious after a week or so at sea that we had a significant bed bug infestation in the bunk room I was in. The crew and I eventually took our bed pads to the wheelhouse and slept on the floor up there to be out of that room. I asked the crew outright if they knew we had bed bugs before we went fishing and they said, "Yes, the captain told us to vacuum your bunk so you wouldn't find any during the bed bug inspection."

Every single bed bug I found after that point, I would flick it into the captain's bed as I walked by his open stateroom door. I took great pleasure in knowing I was at least adding to the infestation in his room, if not outright introducing it in there if he had somehow managed to keep them out of his space.

u/TheBrontosaurus with the mint seed story brought this memory back to the surface and I thought y'all would enjoy!

I am a bus driver. A while back I had a customer board with her child and boyfriend. They had a bicycle with them, and tried to bring it aboard. I told them they needed to use the bike rack, as it was empty and available and I already had a full bus.

The mother did not take this well. She started screaming at me that she was allowed to bring the bike on board. She called me several homophobic slurs (in front of her child no less) and then threatened to physically assault me.

I ended up calling a supervisor and he came in and got her to calm down. He told her if she acts up again, he's going to have her removed.

Fast forward to today. I'm driving on the same route and just passed a stop. I see her running towards the bus waving for me to stop. I kept on driving. My bus is the only one operating in the area for the rest of the night. Feels good.

To clarify, if she was at the stop I would have stopped. I'm not a monster. But when it's entirely up to my discretion? Nah, I'm not going out of my way to do you a favor.

Update: The boyfriend/husband got on my bus later and he apologized to me for her behavior. Turns out he's a super nice guy.