HOA absurdity of the day
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We got our amenities card for gym and pool access, today in the mail. They are spartan things with four pieces of information displayed prominently. Photo, name, name of my emergency contact, and their phone number. So now if I ever use their ghetto pool or gym, I will be secure in the knowledge that if I drown or have a heart attack, a random passerby who finds my corpse and rifles through my pockets for ID, will immediately call my elderly mother. Maybe my mom can advise them to call 911, if she remembers the number.
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That’s the last time I ever provide a real emergency contact number. I thought they were innocuous nothing burgers to be filled in on forms and forever forgotten. Now that they have announced themselves as potentially awkward, they can f right off forever.
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It’s too bad mom jokes are off limits…
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I emailed the HOA representative about getting new cards without the personal info printed on them, and was told in no uncertain terms that the emergency contact information has been useful in past emergencies, and thank you very much for my understanding.
The only thing I'm not sure of is whether that HOA rep is the one to have made up that story, right there on the spot, or whether she was told the story, buys it, and is dutifully relaying it? Anecdote is a mic-drop in any discussion like this. What was that thread we had recently where people were prepped with fake anecdotes about a suicidal friend calling them, in need of being talked off a ledge, over some political thing? Those sorts of anecdotes are legion, precisely because they're "so shut up" moments in any discussion.
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Personally I'm leaving my pool-pass as is. Sure it lists my emergency POC as "Horace" from "
Burke, VA, wait Wisconsin, wait California, wait Texas" but I'd imagine they'd be able to figure it out from there.@89th said in HOA absurdity of the day:
Personally I'm leaving my pool-pass as is. Sure it lists my emergency POC as "Horace" from "
Burke, VA, wait Wisconsin, wait California, wait Texas" but I'd imagine they'd be able to figure it out from there.If they follow the public intellectual community, that should be enough info to track me down.
