Complaint about laundry line doesn't wash in Fort Lauderdale

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[mylife]

Complaint about laundry line doesn't wash in Fort Lauderdale

By Daniella Aird Staff Writer

Poppy Madden likes to breeze-dry her laundry outside her modest home in the up-and-coming Coral Ridge neighborhood because it leaves her clothes fresh and wrinkle-free.

But across the street, a contractor building multimillion dollar homes saw her wet clothes and cringed.

"I'm sure if you bought a $3 million house and your neighbor across the street has purple panties flying in plain visibility, you wouldn't want her doing that," said Robert Strauss of Floridian Estate Builders.

[mylife]

"I hate pulling my skirt out of the dryer when it's all wrinkled in a ball,"

But not as much as nosey nieghbors who get thier panties in a wad

[BJungNan]

Good thing they did not put that development across from our building. They would really be in a snit.

[Skooz]

"I'm sure if you bought a $3 million house and your neighbor across the street has purple panties flying in plain visibility, you wouldn't want her doing that," said Robert Strauss of Floridian Estate Builders.

And it's any of this idiot's business because......?

[inflation]

She has been doing this for years, it's his fault that he didn't check before he started building all those homes. 3,000,000 for a home in an area that has hurricanes?

[wimpycat]

I have a snotty, snobby cousin who was at the house of another, non-snobby cousin a few years ago. The snob sneeringly asked the non-snob, "What are your clothes doing hanging out there?" The non-snob knew what she was getting at, but decided to take the question at face value and glibly replied, "Drying."

I've got lots of clothes that aren't supposed to go in the dryer, so I hang them up indoors. That being said, I don't have a problem with clothes and bedding hanging on a clothes line outside...except towels. I HATE line-dried towels.

[longtermmemmory]

We have to suffer these micro townhouse developments. It almost begs to have a string of obnoxious granny underpanst strung out during his open house.

Would he have the same complaint if a siliconed stripper was hanging her g-strings out to dry whilst wearing or almost wearing a bikini? I doubt it. He would make it a selling point.

[longtermmemmory]

good fences make for good neigbors. Perhaps the city needs to allow taller fences.

[B Knotts]

People that get bent out of shape over someone drying their clothes on a clothesline, have a warped sense of priorities.

[mylife]

LOL!

[mylife]

I thought it was humorous that such a thing would make its way to court

[BJungNan]

Glad you got a laugh but I must admit I was a little less than truthful. We don't use laundry lines. We use a long bamboo pole. I guess you figured as much but thought I ought to clarify things in case any Dem lurkers tried to call me a liar.

[jwalsh07]

good fences make for good neigbors. Perhaps the city needs to allow taller fences.

Don't need good fences in my little piece of America. I can hang my ass out to dry in the summer and nary a busybody would know the difference.

[SouthernFreebird]

It's disgusting the way these rich people are building homes where ever they want and then demand the 'peasants' move along cause they're ruining the view or the value of their over-priced houses.

[Tacis]

Why doesn't Madden just have some of the upstairs household staff do her laundry like Flipper Kerry does?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I can hang my ass out to dry in the summer and nary a busybody would know the difference.

I suppose that would all depend on 2 things:

1. Whether you've bathed recently
2. Which way the wind is blowin' and how hard.

[AnAmericanMother]

People that get bent out of shape over someone drying their clothes on a clothesline, have a warped sense of priorities.

Amen.

We used to live in a neighborhood where we had a goat living on BOTH sides (both very nice goats!) a fellow behind us who worked on cars in his spare time, and another guy who I believe bred fighting roosters although of course that's illegal (he had his whole back yard chicken wired in, with WAY too many roosters with long spurs, and not very many hens . . . )

Nicest neighborhood you ever saw, friendly people. And the whole argument about reducing property values is B.S., because we sold the house after ten years for about 3 times what it cost us to build it + the cost of the land.

We moved to a more "conventional" neighborhood, but we made sure to find one without covenants and minimal zoning restrictions. All our neighbors are still "live and let live" types. And we still have a neighbor who works on cars - they're just 'Vettes now instead of old jalopies.

No goats though. It's a shame, I liked the goats. I don't miss the chickens, though - they all would start crowing around 4 a.m. You got used to it eventually, but . . .

We tried moving our bees, but it was the wrong time of year and we lost them.

[jwalsh07]

Sam, you'll get awful bloody if you get close enough to answer either of those questions. :-}

[B Knotts]

I have goats and chickens. :-)

But they are in the barn at night, so the coyotes/bobcats/cougars don't eat 'em, so I don't hear 'em.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Hee hee!    =;^)

[secretagent]

"I'm sure if you bought a $3 million house and your neighbor across the street has purple panties flying in plain visibility, you wouldn't want her doing that," said Robert Strauss of Floridian Estate Builders.

Negotiate a covenant.