When I first moved here from the Town Down Below in 2012, I
was enthralled with the serenity and beauty of my new hometown and especially
the new little village I had chosen to live in for the rest of my life. What I didn’t know, was that I might come to
regret that choice.
 |
| Head Zombie |
Recently someone who
lives here started a facebook page just for the ‘people’ who live here. About 65 ‘people’ joined. I have to admit that one day I woke up and
seemed to have been taken over by something I can’t describe or put my finger
on, so I joined this group too. Very quickly, the group seemed to be populated by some zombie-like creatures. Luckily, I hadn’t been taken over by the Zombie powders. I spoke my mind on one of my
posts, which didn’t happen to agree with the Head Zombie’s opinion, so she
suspended me. Isn’t that how Zombies are
made? Where did these creatures come
from in the first place?
According to Wiki “A
zombie (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) is a fictional undead
being, created through the reanimation of a human corpse.”
The Head Zombie made this statement to me, “Unfortunately I find it necessary to
suspend your ability to post on Fs & Ns. Your privilege to post will be
reinstated after one week.”
I was so sad to realize that this woman, who I liked and
respected seemed to have been sucked into the mindset and culture of our
Village, which, in my opinion, is not a good thing overall. Suspended because my opinion is not the same as
hers. Suspended because the Head Zombie
seems to believe that it’s okay for the HOA Board of Directors to terminate
your membership if THEY don’t like
what you say about them, the community or other residents. She actually defends them by saying, “Perhaps the HOA is simply evolving...and
Parkbridge being more receptive?”
And this, AFTER she knew that the HOA is trying to add a gag
by-law, taking away Freedom of
Speech!
So what did I say that got me suspended? “Dinosaurs
are extinct, no evolving there. Old blood, dried and crusty. In my opinion,
Parkbridge obviously colludes with the HOA to their advantage and to the
detriment of the home owners.” Zap! I was gone.
Terminated from the group.
Luckily for me, I came to my senses and told the Head Zombie
not to bother reanimating me back into the group, as it is obvious she is not forward
thinking and clearly she just doesn’t care for any opinion but her own. I prefer to associate with others who are
open-minded and cherish our freedom of speech.
A few days later, I saw
the rosters for the new Committee members for our various Village recreation
centres, and guess what my enquiring mind discovered? The fb Zombies seem to
have become the Committee for one of our rec
Co-inkydink? I think not.
I seem to be surrounded by creatures of the night and have
to wonder about relationships between the HOA DoAsIsayasaruses’ and the Zombies
– read my Democracy is Alive and Well in SCA – NOT! How incestuous, if it is so. I really, really, really hope that Zombies and
the DoAsIsayasaruses’ can’t procreate together, which would create Zombieasauruses. I would have to move for sure. But at least now that the mystery has been unwrapped
and the true nature of the fb page started by the Head Zombie revealed.
When I was growing up, my
mom always said to me, “You are judged by the friends you keep.” I used to scoff at her and tell her she
didn’t know what she was talking about, until I made friends with a girl named
Rachel, who had the reputation of being ‘easy’.
It didn’t take long until the boys thought I was ‘easy’ too. So my mom was right after all, but the boys
were wrong.
I continued my friendship
with Rachel, who, I discovered, was not easy after all but had been labelled
that way when a boy tried to wheedle her into ‘putting out’. When
he couldn’t/wouldn’t take “no” for an answer, she kneed him in the nuts to stop
him. He retaliated by spreading a rumour
around school that she was easy. So,
this girl, who had done nothing wrong, was labelled easy, just because this
ignorant boy had been denied his ‘cheap feel’ and instead of just slinking home
to lick his wounded pride and sore balls, he boasted about his ability to cop
more than just a few feels. In no time at all, it became ‘fact’ to the
tiny-minded sheep at school that Rachel
was more than just ‘easy’. I’m glad I
remained friends with her and stood up for her.
Eventually Rachel earned a different reputation by graduating high school
with honours and eventually becoming an advocate specializing in women’s
rights.
I assume by now, that there’s a lot of creatures out there
who wish I would move. I’m happy to say
that I’m very happy here and won’t be moving.
At least not anytime soon. And
since most of the creatures which live here, in this seemingly tranquil little
village are older than me, I’m thinking I’ll outlive most of them. I’m thankful for the people who still have
their brains and are in their right minds, who actually know me. They don’t fall into the zombie lack-of-mindset, like so many here who do, to curry favour with the Big Bokor (a sorcerer
or witch) On Campus (BBOC) by sucking up to them and letting the BBOC eat their
brains for breakfast.
I find it hard to believe
and accept that these were once-sentient beings, and I used to refer to them as
‘friends’. Now that some of them have
been elected to a rec centre Directorship, it is my belief, based on previous
exposure to certain committees here in the Village, that these beings have
succumbed to The BBOC and are now zombies.
The Head Undead goes so far as to defend the HOA DoAsIsayasaruses’ and
their feeble attempt to quell a home owner’s right to their freedom of speech.
The HOA Board of
Directors are trying incorporate a gag into their Constitution and by-laws. Check out Rule #27, which essentially states
that if ‘THEY’ (the HOA board of
directors) don’t like what you say about them, or Sandycove Acres or fellow
residents, you are gone. Their
ludicrous ‘new and improved’ – NOT - changes to their Constitution
and By-laws, are based on changes to
ONCA (Ontario Not-for-Profit Corporations Act) which failed to be passed into
law and yet seems to be the Holy Grail upon which the HOA have based their
changes. I suppose it works for them. Go
here to read the hooey http://www.scahomeowners.com/ ; click on the yellow box and check out
NEW By-law #27 (page 11) and Change #20, directly subsequent, which appears to
be the HOA Board of Directors’ justification of Rule #27.
 |
| April 17, 1982 Signing of our Constitution |
© 2017 Phyllis Mahon - “ALL
IMAGES AS COPYRIGHTED BY PHYLLIS MAHON ARE PROTECTED AND REGISTERED … IT’S
UNLAWFUL TO REPOST, COPY OR PUBLISH MY IMAGES OR CONTENT FROM THIS WEBSITE”
WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION.
