Am I being punished? Oh well, who cares?

I can't seem to post any replies. When I click the reply button, it takes me to the bottom of the same page, not to a reply box. I've tried several times. What is the matter with this board now?

Wow, I just checked out the Wings forum here and it was pretty busy! That's funny, back when I first joined TV.com, the Wings forum was deader than a door nail (whatever that is). But I didn't really care because I do most of my Wings discussion and game playing at Tom Nevers Field. There's some nice people there, and we don't have any ridiculous rules, just common courtesy. I was just surprised to see it busy here. Also, I noticed 4 games there, but only two of them were pinned to the top. I had a thought of sneaking by with more games in the TC forum by giving the threads a name that doesn't let people know it's actually a game. It doesn't really matter now though, since Purplepaws is creating the new board, which I think will be better anyway. I have more fun in the smaller communities, than in these huge ones anyway.

I really love birds and have had a few as pets, but I haven't had much luck with them. Someone gave me a pigeon once, but one of my cats went after him. The same person then gave us two love birds. They were so pretty, bright green and yellow. Nicole named them Lemon and Lime. We had them for a while with no trouble and then one evening, after I had covered their cage for the night, I heard this awful noise from inside. I hurriedly pulled off the cover and found one of them laying there bleeding. Apparently the other one had tried to peck it to death. It died shortly after. I never found out why. I didn't know which was the male and which was the female, so I'm not sure who killed who. And I thought love birds LOVED each other. The remaining bird lived about a year longer, then died also. This time I think it might have been my fault, but I'm not sure. I had bought a dowel to put through the bars of the cage for the bird to perch on, and neglected to take off the sticky UPC symbol. I guess he/she tried to chew it off with it's beak and that's what killed it. Supposedly. So I guess I won't be getting another pet bird any time soon.

Something really irritated me this morning and I just need to vent about it. I belong to a freecycle group. You all probably know what it is already, but just in case you don't, it's a yahoo group where you can offer good usable items that you would like to give away, or ask for something you need. But today there was one in my mailbox where someone was asking for someone to give them a CAR! I couldn't believe someone would have the unmitigated gall to ask for something like a car "in good running condition"! Plus they said they already had one car, but when it breaks down, it is hard for them to get to the auto parts store to buy parts for it!

As some of you know, I haven't had a running vehicle in almost 2 years, because the person I have who would ordinarily fix it, seems unable to find what is wrong with it and I can't afford a "real" mechanic! But, I tell you, I don't even like to ask someone for a ride, much less ask them to GIVE me a car! You might as well be one of those people who stand on the street corner with a sign!

I know I shouldn't be so irritated about it, but I can't help it!