rough saturday

For the past week or so, there has been a leak somewhere underground near the entrance to our condo building. Water just streamed down toward the door and went off into the gutter. It would be leaking and then it would stop for awhile and then it would leak again. The city came out to figure out what was wrong, and it took them about 5 days to decide what was the problem. Each day I would come home and see a different color of spray paint on the blacktop with arrows and descriptions.

Well, saturday morning as I took maggie out for a long morning walk/run, there was a gaggle of workers (probably about 8 workers happy to be getting overtime) near the leaking area. One asked me "Are you planning on going out at all today?"

I said "um, yeah, Why?"

He said, "Well, we are going to dig a hole in the middle of the entrance to your condo parking lot, and so if you want to use your car at all today, you should move it to the street right now."

I said, "okay"

Then, I had one of those silent conversations with myself... Why are we just finding out about this now? Shouldn't someone have given us advance notice?

I took maggie back up to the condo and The president of the board called and asked me to go around and knock on doors (wake people up-as it was around 8:30 am), and tell them that if they want to use their cars they better move them now. Let's just say that some residents were none too happy about this development. It is tough being the bearer of bad news.

The certainly did dig a hole in our driveway...it has a diameter the size of a small bicycle. I'm not good with estimating the # of feet, so i won't even go there. Suffice to say it was a big hole! That is, it IS a big hole. They covered it with a big plate so that people didn't fall into it, and I assume they resumed work on it today. We still haven't returned the car to the parking lot--I'm afraid we'll get stuck in there and won't be able to get the car out. Of course, we park it in a different place on the street each time, so the last time I went to go get the car, I had to walk around a bit to find it--I'm not used to remembering where I park it at home.