[Morrigoon]

Euro: I agree about the croissants.

For me it's the over-doing and ruination of great things in the name of "safety" (eg: saving stupid people and their children from their own stupidity and/or negligence. For example, D-phile lives in this apartment community where the center area is all streams and ducks. But it's ruined because apparently some parents can't watch their children (and these streams really are NOT that deep, less than 2'), so instead of really pretty streams with no fence, or even really pretty streams with a low fence (like, say, 3'? Just high enough to be to tall for toddlers?) the entire stream area, and therefore, all the walkways to apartments, are surrounded by a 5 or 6 foot tall vertical bar fence. TOTALLY ruins the effect. And I hate that. I understand the need for fencing and all, but why must it be taller than the children? Oh yeah, because SOME parents won't watch their children, so heaven help us the kids might get out of the apartment AND climb a fence for the sole purpose of drowning themselves in 18" of water.

And the thing that bugs me most is my fear that they'll do it to the streams around MY place, which would RUIN it completely for me.