RE: The Fine Art of Complaining

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

Sounds like the makings of a good Stephen King story, Dori!


Bonnie Granat
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> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 2:57 PM
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> Subject: The Fine Art of Complaining
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> I'm told my communications problem with my town board and 
> code enforcement officer have gone away.
> 
> I did not write up my complaints and take them to the town 
> board meeting as suggested by the town supervisor.
> 
> I asked for advice about how to handle the situation from the 
> head of the New York State Farm Protection Board and USDA's 
> Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas, who is 
> sending a heavy packet of info about how this very situation 
> is a recognized and important global issue.  Another buddy 
> from USDA made a phone call just to mention how he's heard 
> that I've relocated to their area, I'm a community activist 
> well known on the National scene who happens to garden 
> organically (not a solitary unknown organic farmer with 
> antisocial tendencies as it might appear on the surface), and 
> their community is so lucky that I've decided to settle there.
> 
> Why light a match when an autostart blowtorch is just a 
> telephone or keyboard away?
> 
> TW connection?  Audience analysis.  What was going to be effective?
> 
> Best result -- judge and code enforcer were actually friendly 
> and certainly no longer making any attempts to intimidate me. 
>  Enforcer is officially satisfied with the progress I've made 
> toward correcting the items in question, and the summons is 
> officially closed -- no more vague and undocumented demands 
> for action, reversed and added to the next week.  When I gave 
> him an intentional opening for discussion of a different 
> topic by mentioning my missing cats, he came back with a 
> report that he thinks he's already seen one.  He even 
> described her accurately, so maybe she really will return.  I 
> feed and catch feral cats for neutering, he shoots them.  
> There's still some water to cross.  But it's a start.
> 
> The neighbor is still scowling mightily and he almost ran me 
> off the road the other day.  But the town is off my back.
> 
> Dori Green
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