As I sit here in late August and relax by a very quiet Lake Erie, I am content to know that the Summer People will soon be gone.
You know the Summer People... those people who surreptitiously relocate to cottage country every year. One day they are not here... the next day they are. They are easy to recognize.... they have every transportable possession in tow and more often than not this includes spare family members and/or copious amounts of alcohol. You very well may be one of these people and to you I mean no disrespect.
The majority of them are quite lovely and very friendly, for the most part. I tend to group them into three categories:
1. The Slightly Annoying
These are the people you hardly ever see and can't hear down at this end of the road and you need only nod and wave to as you drive by.
2. The Moderately Annoying
These are the people that occupy the immediate cottages around me.
3. The Completely Annoying
These are the people that possess marauding teenagers and/or canines, have loud parties with stadium sized speakers and/or steal from and generally destroy my property.
There are of course sub-groups within the main three categories.
There are the Road Nazi's for example. These are the people half way up the road that sunbathe in the very middle of it while wearing an iPod turned up on full thus are unable to hear you coming until you lose your patience and start honking. These are the same people who plant a large, bright neon green turtle shaped sign that is carrying a "Drive Slow" flag. They jump out and scream at you as you drive down the road despite the fact that you are going a full 10 km slower than the posted limit.
There are the obligatory and ever present Jet-Skiers. This sub-group falls under the heading of Completely Annoying, especially when several of them are doing water-donuts in front of your house and your front rooms are filling up with spent gasoline fumes. I tried, in vain, to organize a race to the bottom of Niagara Falls this year but I had no takers.
You know the Summer People... those people who surreptitiously relocate to cottage country every year. One day they are not here... the next day they are. They are easy to recognize.... they have every transportable possession in tow and more often than not this includes spare family members and/or copious amounts of alcohol. You very well may be one of these people and to you I mean no disrespect.
The majority of them are quite lovely and very friendly, for the most part. I tend to group them into three categories:
1. The Slightly Annoying
These are the people you hardly ever see and can't hear down at this end of the road and you need only nod and wave to as you drive by.
2. The Moderately Annoying
These are the people that occupy the immediate cottages around me.
3. The Completely Annoying
These are the people that possess marauding teenagers and/or canines, have loud parties with stadium sized speakers and/or steal from and generally destroy my property.
There are of course sub-groups within the main three categories.
There are the Road Nazi's for example. These are the people half way up the road that sunbathe in the very middle of it while wearing an iPod turned up on full thus are unable to hear you coming until you lose your patience and start honking. These are the same people who plant a large, bright neon green turtle shaped sign that is carrying a "Drive Slow" flag. They jump out and scream at you as you drive down the road despite the fact that you are going a full 10 km slower than the posted limit.
There are the obligatory and ever present Jet-Skiers. This sub-group falls under the heading of Completely Annoying, especially when several of them are doing water-donuts in front of your house and your front rooms are filling up with spent gasoline fumes. I tried, in vain, to organize a race to the bottom of Niagara Falls this year but I had no takers.
There are also the Music Lovers. These are the people that are 10 cottages away but want everyone to enjoy Celine Dion and Abba as much as they do. This group can fall under the Moderately Annoying or the Completely Annoying depending on their chosen volume level.
There are more but I think you get the idea.
So here I sit... patiently waiting for September 1st to come and go. By September 2nd I will be yet again enjoying the beautiful weather of sunny southern Niagara in sweet solitude and blissful quiet.
And then, by the time the Gales of November start.... I will be missing those damned Summer People after all.
There are more but I think you get the idea.
So here I sit... patiently waiting for September 1st to come and go. By September 2nd I will be yet again enjoying the beautiful weather of sunny southern Niagara in sweet solitude and blissful quiet.
And then, by the time the Gales of November start.... I will be missing those damned Summer People after all.
2 comments:
Wasaga Beach was like that. My favourite time there was early fall after all the summer people were gone and it became peaceful again.
P.S But sometimes during the summer we were the "music lovers". Whats a little AC/DC between neighbours? Well we got barked at by morning passersby more than once lol.
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