Ticked Off! @Uber Eats orders

I do Uber Eats deliveries. On my Ticked Off list: no gate codes, no parking near delivery spots,  poorly visible house numbers, confusing GPS directions, app crashing, apartment buildings with no clear signage.

I am ticked off at the city of Winter Park.  I just received one of those double-speak letters from them about someone wanting to subdivide their property. First, it says that the two lots meet area and width requirements, BUT, they are requesting one setback be 12 feet not 20, and the lot width be 75 feet not 100.  So it seems to me that their parcel DOESN’T meet city setbacks at all if they need these exemptions. That request is called a variance, but the city isn’t saying that because as usual, when they want to do something they couch the language in a way to make the reader believe that this would be OK. It would be nice if the city of Winter Park would be honest and fair and hold everyone to the same limitations and rules.

Ticked off at ignorance. The fact is, there’s no conclusive evidence that open carry reduces crime.  Most police organizations and unions are against open carry. How do they recognize a good guy with a gun from a bad guy with a gun? More guns makes their job harder. Also, the wording in the second amendment says “ well regulated”. Open carry and permitless carry is unregulated. Our politicians only covet the campaign money from gun manufacturers.

I’m ticked off that someone would think that the only people openly carrying guns are ”good guys”. I’ve been in neighborhoods where open carry was the norm before it became law, and it wasn’t safer than other neighborhoods. Police and firefighters didn’t want to be there. Why? Because of an armed populace. Just because someone has a gun doesn’t mean they’re well trained in the proper use of a weapon, nor that they have the mental stability and emotional intelligence to determine when a weapon is needed.

I’m ticked off the Sentinel does not have front page or any page coverage of the illegal demolition of the White House east wing.

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