Hurry Up and Wait

Friday June 3rd 2011

The roofers began pounding at 615am, and this was the beginning of the hottest and muggiest day of the year so far. Haze and Heat with a Discomfort Index of plus 100 by mid-afternoon.

Loyd showed up about 915am. He told me that he would be late because he was setting up a 'flea market' for his wife and a number of her friends in the Koke Mile subdivision. The roofers seemed to have zeroed in on my patio, and it was obvious that he could not work anywhere near this area. We had thought that they might be through in a couple of hours, but the littering and cascading continued until late afternoon. However, Loyd did go back to Menard's, and bought a flapper for the upstairs toilet. He told me that this would increase his bill by twenty five bucks. Money well spent!

I called CWLP at 910am and verified that my 'window of opportunity' was between 11am and 3pm. At 130pm I called, and they said that they would find out what was going on, and call me back. At 230pm I called, and they said that they would find out what was going on, and call me back. At 330pm, I called and she left me on hold, and then said that they had sent an email at 10am, and never had gotten a response. What the fuck good was this? I hung up, and decided to spent the twenty bucks to have the old fridge hauled away when Dick Van Dyke showed up tomorrow. At 355pm, as I was pulling the bike out onto the patio, they showed up to remove the fridge. They said that they had truck problems (lift-gate refused to work), and the driver said that they had called, but I did not hear the phone ring. They had the fridge out and into the truck in five minutes, and the unit was too wide to get through the patio doors, however, they moved it out with the doors wide open, and then twisted it. I would have never thought of this in a thousand years, and I had a kind of career doing this stuff.

The driver said that I should receive the check for fifty bucks in about a month, and this was probably the hardest work I have ever done for $50.00. Waiting and Wondering are not my strongest points. And, after being kept in the dark for over six hours, to tell me that they had sent an email at 10am was beneath contempt. That did not even qualify as an answer.

Loyd will be back on Monday AM to finish the wall work in the bathroom, and continue on to the fixtures.

Can't Wait....