Commotion, Narc

When I arrived home last night there was quite to commotion with trucks and heavy equipment gathered around the entrance to my development. On my way back from walking Elsa I asked one of the men working what was up.

For the last couple weeks there have been some utility contractors laying conduit for fiber optic cable. They pissed some people off as they spray painted yards, the street and planted flags indicating underground utility locations without any prior notice/permission. My neighbor across the street was really pissed because the drilling machine was on his pavers and spilled oil on them during the process. I saw the 84 year old man out there trying to scrub the oil off for quite awhile over the weekend. Well this mess at the entrance was due to them as well.

Evidently the underground drilling machine they use broke a sewer pipe near the entrance. Luckily it only affected one house in the neighborhood as far as the sewer connection but it still required a ton of work to address. I am sure the contractors responsible will have a huge bill from the county coming their way.

In theory having fiber in our neighborhood should be a good thing, it’s just a matter of how much speed it provides and at what cost. If the numbers are good I could see myself dumping Xfinity. It costs me over $220 a month for their service which is ridiculous IMO.

I have been hooked into a YouTube channel called Cart Narcs for a week or two. The premise is simple, a guy politely gets in the face of people that do not return their shopping carts to the collection points in parking lots. If they ignore his request to put the carts back he drops a magnet sign on their vehicle indicating they are a “lazy bones”. The reactions he gets from people he confronts range from good natured to violent.

My first job ever was a stock man at K-mart in the 80’s. One of my tasks was collecting shopping carts. Ever since then I had a strong dislike for individuals that were too lazy to walk a cart to the corral. Hell I have a strong dislike for lazy people in general now that I think of it. I recall that mostly miserable job at K-mart paid a whopping $2.75 an hour.