Safety orange can melt your eyesOctober 25th, 2006 @ 7:01 am
Let’s just say that I live near a major construction site, okay? And this said construction site is not only loud, but is blocking my parking garage. And let’s not even (hhypothetically) talk about the temporary handicap ramp which has a slope of about 52%! (That’s high. Trust me; I used the level when factoring the slope. I mean, the hypothetical slope!) How is one expected to push a 20+ pound baby and stroller up the thing? While lugging around a laptop on my back?
And let’s just say that I am sick and freaking tired of listening to jack hammering and drilling and the usual construction noises. Especially when the stupid contractor forgoes the city’s noise constraint. I mean dude, do you really need to turn on the jack hammer before 7 am on a Saturday? Really?
And now you are going to turn the water off in the building for 14 hours? 14 hours in which I will (at some point) need to bathe myself and my baby. All the while I’m not even able to turn left after exiting my garage. The garage that I pay $200 a month to park in.
I mean, hypothetically.
To make matters worse, the construction workers aren’t even hot. Or under the age of 45. And while I do enjoy seeing a safety orange shirt, I much prefer it on someone a little closer to my own age. Or the age I was in high school. You know, whatever.
The King and I are hoping, nay praying, that management tries to up our rent before our new house is done. Then we can come back and be all “hey, we aren’t paying more rent because of all this crappy construction going on. We hate it. We hate you. This sucks balls.”
How crappy would this be, hypothetically, if it was my own company doing the work? So complaining would get me nowhere, except for maybe in the poor house.
This would be crappy, right?
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Sandy
said,
October 25, 2006 at 7:22 pm
That would be crappy! I would advise taking lots of hypothetical deep breaths.
shellynoir
said,
October 25, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Your poor cat!
(five minutes go by)
oh, poor you, too.
Jennifer
said,
October 25, 2006 at 7:49 pm
I have been known to call the cops once or twice or seventeen times on people who decide it’s OK for them to jackhammer at 6am on Saturday or midnight on a weeknight because they are special. The worst was when I went outside, phone in hand, to get a good description and exact location of the violaters and saw that it was CITY WORKERS. Breaking the CITY noise laws. AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!
Um, could you call the cops anonymously and complain? Give an anonymous letter to the management? Talk your neighbors into complaining for you? Have a lot of wine before bed? I’ve personally tried only two of those tactics, neither one worked too well, I’m afraid
Cassie
said,
October 25, 2006 at 8:03 pm
Wow, that would (hypothetically) be crappy.
I love it that you linked “safety orange.” As a matter of fact, I love that there’s a Wikipedia ENTRY for “safety orange.”
Here’s hoping you make it through the 14 hours without water. Maybe you could spend the night in a hotel, and bill your apartment managers or, ha ha, bill your (hypothetical) company? Now that I think about it, maybe that’s not such a good idea…
alyndabear
said,
October 25, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Construction is the worst - and before 7am on Saturday? Surely they can be thrown in prison for that. Hmph.
Courtney
said,
October 25, 2006 at 9:23 pm
Ugh, that would be crappy. hypothetically speaking, of course.
HollowSquirrel
said,
October 25, 2006 at 10:52 pm
definitely craptacular.
Lo siento.
Idea: Move to upstate NY.
Jessie
said,
October 25, 2006 at 11:20 pm
That would hypothetically be very crappy! Hope the hypothetical construction is finished soon.
janet
said,
October 25, 2006 at 11:42 pm
gosh it sure is a good thing none of this is REALLY happening then, right?
Bunny
said,
October 26, 2006 at 12:02 am
Ugh. Sorry about all the crap. Yuck.
Redinkydink
said,
October 26, 2006 at 12:42 am
Oh that’s horrible! You need all the sleep you can get! And water… Yeah, you really need water. I wouldn’t wait until they try to up your rent. I’d complain now.
angela
said,
October 26, 2006 at 2:27 am
I guess the only logical thing to do is show up to work smelly and half asleep.
Durga
said,
October 26, 2006 at 6:10 am
hahaha I remember the temporary handicap ramp that you speak of. Yes, it’s true people- it is totally stupid.
I do hypothetical thinking all the time. Especially in my “come backs” to very ruide people (mostly at church) who pry ino my private life without any regard for my feelings.
alyndabear
said,
October 26, 2006 at 10:30 am
Hey! Your website ate my comment from this morning. =X
Lizzy
said,
October 26, 2006 at 2:30 pm
Hypothetically speaking? Yeah: suckitysucksucksuck.
Rachel
said,
October 26, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Arrrgh! A couple of Saturday’s ago I had put Alyssa down for a nap and decided to lay down myself. I had stayed up late the night before and was tired. As soon as I laid down, I heard what I thought was a lawn company at my neighbors house (the house had recenly been vacated, so this made sense). I thought, ok, this will only take about 30 mins to finish. Um, no, it won’t. It was a tree company coming to cut down a huge tree that was right on the property line. With a chainsaw. For the rest of the day. On Saturday.
Chris
said,
October 26, 2006 at 5:18 pm
If construction crews are going to inconvenience you, the least they should do is be hot.
Brittany
said,
October 26, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Wouldn’t it be great if the construction workers went away and were replaced by some hunky firemen? Ahhhh! I love me some hunky firemen!!
Christar
said,
October 26, 2006 at 7:28 pm
Jackhammer before 7am?! On a SATURDAY?! Heck no! I would NOT be happy with that! I would be complaining to someone, but that’s just me. I don’t take kindly to rude people who have no respect. Hope it gets better!
Lindsey
said,
October 26, 2006 at 8:56 pm
I just think there are too many hypotheticals for me to come up with a hypothetical answer.
Lisa B
said,
October 27, 2006 at 12:33 am
Bah! That just sucks. No hypotheticals about it!
song
said,
October 27, 2006 at 2:14 am
There is construction across the street from my work that is so loud if the doors to my building are opened I can’t hear clients even when they are yelling down the phone. Or across the desk.
And they are all over 45 too.
If I can’t hear and I keep choking on concrete dust that wafts in here, I at least want to be able to admire the view.
Nicole
said,
October 27, 2006 at 4:30 pm
Ok, seriously crappy. Uugh - construction sucks for so many reasons - the noise, the traffic, the dust, the (sometimes) creepy workers, etc. Hope it gets better soon.