Hay Rant
By Morgan
@OneOfMany (12150)
United States
November 20, 2015 12:01pm CST
The bales are stacked in the loft and there are independent piles for the few people that pick up one or two bales from time to time. I always have bales arranged as stairs going up to the higher levels so if I need to get more bales quickly I can run up and toss them down. Other people are more than welcome to do the same. Yet every time someone comes to get hay, the very first ones they take are the stairs up. Every time!
They completely ignore the piles left out in the open and go for the steps up. I don't understand the mentality, because they ought to have noticed I replace those bales before any of the others. Yet every time, they take them away. Several weeks ago I had to scale a vertical wall of hay because people had taken away all of the bales I could use to go up. And they wonder why I don't like people in the loft by themselves!
I tell people I should make a sign and put it on display saying: "I don't come into your house and take your stairs, please don't come in here and take mine!"
I just went out to the loft and my well constructed, sturdy staircase was gone again, and the several bales I put out for them to grab were untouched. I am beginning to think that it's malicious. Or just a case of collective stupidity.
Which do you think it is?
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4 responses
@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
21 Nov 15
They are attracted to patterns. It's absolutely natural and probably subconscious. Instead of leaving the other bales out in a random way, arrange them in circles and squares, or in a pyramid shape. See if they gravitate towards them.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
21 Nov 15
@OneOfMany How about a big sign that say s "Take these bales only" with a honking huge arrow pointing at them? Sometimes people just need to be told what to do
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
21 Nov 15
@Rollo1 Or I could have the sign that says "Don't take these, they are steps up." Then maybe in the future they will remember I like steps.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
21 Nov 15
The initial secondary pattern was stacked in a nice ordered row of 5 two bales high. A very nice and tidy shape close to the door. About patterns, people should notice that it would be a very handy pattern to get higher up. That mere thought should rule out random behavior. I think you've just helped me decide it's idiocy.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Nov 15
lol! Maybe a sign would be good
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
21 Nov 15
@OneOfMany the only other thing I can think of involves spraying them with , no we are stairs go get a real bale. lol
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
21 Nov 15
@Jessicalynnt It's just frustrating when I go in to get bales for someone to find that my nice way up is gone and I have to scale the pile. It's dangerous as well. And there are no bales to roll the others down, which pounds the floor and shakes the light fixtures down below. It's just over all bad.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
21 Nov 15
I think a sign is a must, because they don't seem to understand otherwise. If I was mean I'd just throw all the bales up on top and leave it an impossible stack to get up or take any down, and maybe then they would think "oh, steps would be nice."
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
21 Nov 15
That's why I think signs are my best bet. One of these days I can imagine trying to go in and needing to pull a ladder up to get to the top of a pile, and there's no need to ever have to do that.
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@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
22 Nov 15
@pgntwo They are generally people that take the bales home and create their own stack with them. Until they use them.
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@pgntwo (22405)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
22 Nov 15
@OneOfMany Perhaps these people have never stacked bales: from memory, the same approach is used to get the things into the space they occupy in the first place.
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
20 Nov 15
Yes, two stringers. The question is why don't they see all the bales up front, instead of going around them in order to take the steps... One pile is right next to the door and is literally 2 strides, while the steps are 50 feet away.
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@TheHorse (238275)
• Walnut Creek, California
20 Nov 15
@OneOfMany 'Cause the bottom step is already on the ground, Just asking to be picked up?
@OneOfMany (12150)
• United States
20 Nov 15
@TheHorse Along with 10 other bales on the ground begging to be picked up?
