Move It or Lose It
Joelle said around mid-morning on June 3, 2007
(To anyone who is a city employee, it’s nothing personal.)
Dear Orange-Clad San Diego City Employees,
I and many others live on a hillside with streets that go one-way, dead end, don’t connect all the way through and are otherwise a labyrinth of traffic logic. When, on a Saturday morning, you decide to block off the one-way street that leads to our apartment building to tar the road, would it not be best to make haste? Sitting with your butts on the railing, chit-chatting over a smoke with your three other slacker colleagues while your truck with the two-way flashing arrows idles violently, spewing pollution, telling me I’m shit out of luck if I want to go home, is not really making the most of taxpayer dollars, now is it?
In the future, I recommend putting up a sign suggesting a detour so we don’t drive all over hell and back trying to find a super secret side street that meanders through the hills, hitting dead-end after dead-end and creatively cursing when gasoline is $3.89 a gallon. I also might suggest alerting the neighborhood that you even intend to tar the street. You know, so people can stop their lives for half a Saturday while you do so.
Thanks for fixing the crack, though.
xo,
Joelle
Moxie Design Studios™
from SD CA (this week) • Cocktail: Red Headed Slut
i’ll fix the crack. haha.
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
I was going to not post this because I didn’t want this blog to become a bitchfest, but oh well. lol. If I can’t gripe here where can I gripe? hee!
from Orlando • Cocktail: Sit-Down Straw-Rita
That’s what happens when you pay them by the hour. Pay them by the project and I bet they’d get it done in half the time.
from Virginia Beach, VA • Cocktail: Calypso Cooler
$3.89? Cripes!!! We are at $2.92 - much higher and I am going to have to look into getting my 5 year old a J.O.B.!!!
I may look into it anyways…
from West Palm Beach, FL • Cocktail: Champagne Bellini
Nice CRACK.
“Say ‘crack’ again.....”
“Crack.”
Did they literally block the only way to get to your place? Isn’t there a bylaw that says if they cut off the only way into or out of an area that they come up with some alternate route or something? Very strange. Here in
GermanyCanada, they have to put up notices and detours.(PS. crack. crack crack crack)
Holy bejeebus! $3.89
Even in L.A. we can get gas (at Costco) for under $3.30 right now.
I guess I should enjoy that while I can…
I live on a dead end street too and it makes me crazy when it is blocked off by garbage trucks or other large vehicles.
from Chicago
We have the same joy here in Chicago. The old, tired joke is that we have 2 seasons here: Winter, and construction. Our problem is that we use union labor, so we get union “work”. Anytime Hubs and I take a break from whatever chores we are doing, we even call it a “Union Break”.
Good luck to you. The smell of hot asphalt is one of the few things that will absolutely make me hork.
(My captcha is “Gimlet”. Nice one Joelle.)
from Virginia Beach, VA • Cocktail: Calypso Cooler
I had to look up Kathy’s Cocktail: Champagne Bellini - I had never heard of it - it sounds MARVELOUS!!! I will definitely have to try one of those in the near future.
from San Diego, CA • Cocktail: slightly dirty Grey Goose martini
@Deltus: yeah. There was one other way down into the streets, but it was really complicated to find…
@Maria: you’d think they could at least hurry it up, you know? lol
@manic witch: thanks! mmm… gimlets.
@soapbox: yeah, they are way good. Mmm mmm. Kathy’s turned me into a champagne girl, too because this ol’ girl can’t knock back the vodka like she used to.
Dude. DUDE. I get away from my computer for two-and-a-half days and that’s when you decide to come back!
YAY!
And it’s just about $3.00 here, but oil COMES from here, so I think that’s part of it. Urgh.
from Escanaba, MI • Cocktail: Fabulous-Tini
$3.89? Damn. I thought $3.39 here was harsh.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they were really something to look at. At least make the view worth the wait. Unfortunately, they all LOOK like they’ve been on A LOT of breaks. Too much coffee, too many donuts and too many cigs do NOT do a body good.