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Originally Posted by Xenophon
...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? |
Now, now, tar and feathering is much too good for them...And it costs money! (Have you priced oil lately?) Here's a Red approved better answer...
Tie 'em all to an individual rail (to the left, one per rail
) and plant each rail in a random alley... And the only people who can look for them have to drive a snow plow....
If this is considered too cruel, just tie the paychecks to the random rails.....