...when it's
two weeks after a major snow-storm, and the city
still hasn't come to plow out the back alley. Not a problem for me, but two elderly neighbors can't get their cars out of their driveways because there's still 16 inches of snow in the alley! They've been calling the city's hot-line every day for two weeks, but nothing had come of it as of Saturday
.
So... My wife and I just spent
more than half our weekend digging out the alley so our neighbors can get to the store, pick up their medications, etc. Yes, it would have been easier to just give them a lift to the store, but they just
won't ask for that kind of help. So now I need to figure out how to get the city to pay for all the sore muscles I have today. (Owwwww!)
And while we're at it, can we organize a neck-tie party for the
genius who decided to save money by having only 50 plows for the entire city? And the brilliant folks who signed a union contract with the snow-plow drivers that
forbids having
any of the city's other drivers run any vehicle with a plow on it. There're lots more than 50 dump-trucks in the public works department. And they're all equipped with attachments for plows. Even the
garbage trucks have attachments for plows. But noooooo! We can't put plows on
any of
those vehicles, because anything with a plow must be driven by a member of the right union, and the city only has fifty of those.
Letting the other public works department drivers run a plow would violate the union contract, and we can't possibly have that. Far better to have all the secondary roads still with only one lane clear
TWO FARKING WEEKS after the *^%*&^% snow storm.
Xenophon
(maybe this should have gone in the Vent & Rant thread, but...)
P.S. OK. A neck tie party is really a bit too extreme. Can we just tar and feather them and then run them out of town on a rail?