road menders again
Feb. 22nd, 2013 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerLast time they were like Sir Lancelot attacking the castle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail--always running up and never arriving.
This time, it's an episode of "guerrilla road menders" as they show up (almost literally) at dawn, with no warning.
Now, I'm happy to have them come. When the water company people came, they ripped a huge hole in the street to fix the main, but only filled in about half of it, so it's been like driving across the Serengeti to go out of our street.
But a *little* notice might have been nice. I have no idea how they're going to fix the hole without blocking the entire street to traffic. And this is a one-way street with a park at the other end. 80-90% of the people who live on the street are on the "wrong" side of the hole.
Oh, well, we'll see what happens.
Meanwhile, we're all Flanders and Swan here.
"They fixed the gushing water main
We cheered them one and all,
But now we've got the menders in
To fill the bloody hole.
Oh, it all makes work
For the working man to do,"
This time, it's an episode of "guerrilla road menders" as they show up (almost literally) at dawn, with no warning.
Now, I'm happy to have them come. When the water company people came, they ripped a huge hole in the street to fix the main, but only filled in about half of it, so it's been like driving across the Serengeti to go out of our street.
But a *little* notice might have been nice. I have no idea how they're going to fix the hole without blocking the entire street to traffic. And this is a one-way street with a park at the other end. 80-90% of the people who live on the street are on the "wrong" side of the hole.
Oh, well, we'll see what happens.
Meanwhile, we're all Flanders and Swan here.
"They fixed the gushing water main
We cheered them one and all,
But now we've got the menders in
To fill the bloody hole.
Oh, it all makes work
For the working man to do,"
