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Rut Update
By JLP | November 12, 2007
Oops. I forgot to give everyone an update on the rut saga that happened last week. Last Friday afternoon my father-in-law sent me this email from his Blackberry:
Your rut has been filled in………and has tire tracks thru it.
LOL! Sure enough. This morning I passed the post office and the rut was filled up. I’m impressed!
Topics: Miscellaneous | 4 Comments »
November 12th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
This reminds me of the following story about government work:
A guy stopped at a local gas station and, after filling his tank, he paid
the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and
watched a couple of men working along the roadside.
One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The
other man came along behind him and filled in the hole. While one was
digging a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the hole. The
men worked right past the guy with the soft drink and went on down the
road.
“I can’t stand this,” said the man tossing the can into a trash container
and heading down the road toward the men. “Hold it, hold it,” he said to
the
men. “Can you tell me what’s going on here with all this digging and
refilling?”
“Well, we work for the government and we’re just doing our job,” one of
the men said.
“But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up.
You’re not accomplishing anything. Aren’t you wasting the taxpayers’
money?”
“You don’t understand, mister,” one of the men said, leaning on his shovel
and wiping his brow. “Normally there’s three of us: me, Elmer and Leroy. I
dig the hole, Elmer sticks in the tree and Leroy, here, puts the dirt back.
Now just because Elmer’s sick, that don’t mean that Leroy and me can’t
work.”
November 12th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
more worrying to me is the fact that so many people in your area are poor drivers. I mean how hard is it to navigate a turn and not jump the curb?
November 12th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Jordan,
Yeah, the lady from last week was quite elderly. To make matters worse, she was making a left turn, not a u-turn. I’m thinking she shouldn’t be driving.
The fresh tire tracks could be from the truck that filled the hole.
November 13th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Thanks for the laugh Al!