So - common language, common organisational skills!
In the UK, there would have been one utility company or other digging it up
between each of the stages. THEN one of them would have come BACK to ruin it
at the end.
Julian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Gomez" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 8:15 AM
Subject: RE: [OM] Common language, was Cleaning Old Price Tag Goo Off Body
> Nope, just the state. We don't like to give it our money, they'll just
waste it. Case in point:
>
> Last summer, the county neatly repaved our street. A month later, they
came along and carefully striped it with nifty reflective paint. Two weeks
ago, a county employee came buy and carefully marked (with one of those
fluorescent-colored spray-paint markers) the location of all the sewer
lines--apparently in anticipation of some sewer work being done.
>
> So...
>
> Two days ago a large county crew came noisily along, sprayed about a
half-inch of liquid asphalt over the entire thing and covered the lot in an
inch of gravel. It is now a uniform, pale gray, crunchy mass. (Knowing the
county, it's likely limestone gravel, which will promptly begin
disintegrating this winter, in the wet and snow)
>
> Any day now I expect the sewer guys to return and dig it all up.
>
> ---
> Scott Gomez
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Barker [mailto:ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Subject: Re: [OM] Common language, was Cleaning Old Price Tag Goo Off
> Body
>
> Oh, I am sure we are grateful Scott ;-). And are all those
> Californians broke? - reference to the impending bankruptcy of the
> state ;-)
>
> Chris
> Njjx1zjzʱi=q
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