To the Douches working on Thistle St. — Thanks for tearing up our street just in the nick of time for summer. No sleeping in, no way for emergency vehicles to pass, they can’t even open the store downstairs where I buy my baby Daughters milk because even they can’t get here and they don’t find it worth it because no one can get their cars through. I’m so happy that your squeaky loud ass Bacco’s are not maintained enough. Ever hear of WD40? It only started yesterday and I’m ready to tear my hair out. Thanks, Thanks soo friggin’ much.
—Mad Mom
This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2009.
know what always gets me? the “speed fines are double in work areas” signs- i wanna kick those things into the ditch SO bad. I HATE construction- they don’t do shit. they stand around smoking and talking while I’m fucking wasting my life in 30 minutes of construction everyday… GODDAMN- makes a nice day on a motorcycle a total waste of gas. And… 10km of orange signs before i see one fucking person.
madmom, i hear your pain. however spring/summer/early fall is road construction season, what with the ashphalt plants opening up again after a long and pothole filled winter.
streets must be torn up, improved, repaved and the times arent always convienent for everyone. all citizens cant be happy all of the time.
there’s only one thing worse than road construction on your street, car-eating potholes with multiple workers standing around looking at them and not much more.
Your baby’s name is Daughter? And what’s a Bacco?
In completely unrelated news, my friends’s daughter was run over by a backhoe. Just saying.
maybe that backhoe was sufficiently maintained and she couldnt hear it making its way squeakily towards her.
So, instead of road work being done, you live with potholes. You drive over said pothole and ruin your car. You complain about that, and we’re back to square one. So what’s it gonna be?
Can’t make anybody happy. Bitch when the streets are crap, bitch when they repair them.
Yep I can hear the OP now if they weren’t doing repairs. “Bastards aren’t fixing my street what a bunch of lazy assholes. Is this what I’m paying taxes for. Fucking city.”
Who wants to take odds on this?
Heh…Bacco.
I pretty much agree with John & others…
Also I wonder do the construction workers come by your place of work while you are having a break and grumble about how “lazy” you are. Maybe they are lazy, I don’t have a clue actually, since I’ve never done roadwork.
mostly i think the roads are repaired *inefficiently*…. that was certainly MY point…..its takes forever because they don’t do anything 80% of the time they spend at a site…. ….too busy putting out pylons, no doubt.
F7, I’ve never repaired a road before but I’m sure 2 people could pull it off just as quickly as 4 or 5. I suspect there are certain budgets to fill with our municipal tax dollars. I suspect if certain departments don’t use up what’s allocated in the annual budget they’re allocated less the following year… department heads hate that. What do you think? Does it really take 2 trucks and 5 guys to fill pot holes all day or can the same be done with 1 truck and 2 guys?
If road workers have such a plum job why aren’t more people doing it?
Tell them to stop working and come over and fix my street if its such a hassle, idiot.
Just to clarify, this is a water main project. Absolutely necessary.
It’s gotta get done, if you don’t like it, move to the Arctic Circle, they never have construction
er, almost all of these projects are put out to tender.
If you think you could do it for less dough, put in a bid!
I’ve done some labour jobs before, and I’ve spent some time doing road work. I’d like to mention that, 9 times out of 10, you need 5 or 6 guys on a site because roadwork is hot, heavy and tiring. You try shoveling asphalt all day, and not have to rest at least for 5 minutes every hour. I wouldn’t wish that shit on my worst enemy. Maybe kay, but not anyone else.
How well does that pay, Dr. Fever?
…and is there a big difference between what they give the people doing back-breaking work and the people who turn signs?
Given the work Dogma, it doesn’t pay well enough. For the most part these jobs are non-unionized and you get paid maybe 9 bucks an hour to do it. The guys who turn the signs get paid little more than minimum wage. That’s all they deserve. To top it all off, you’re usually there for 10 hours, usually starting at 7 am and finishing around 5 pm.
the plus is that they’re great workmen’s comp jobs for those injured on the job. flagging’s excellent for that… most people heal up well enough to use their brains and are able to at least stand there for a while.
now shoveling all day… outside in th fresh air…no cubicle or manager calling you a fucking moron for not stopping the outage he created…. I’d take that in a sec if it paid what I’m making now. I LOVE shoveling…. one of the best excersizes there is.
Stupid woman. I guess a new water line and a week of disruption is the equivalent of the end of the world.
Give her a free trip to Africa and perhaps she will learn how to walk to get water. Or she could take a 5 minute walk to the Dartmouth Shopping centre for the milk.
The project should only take ~2 weeks, and when I was laying over there last night around 6:30pm, they were still working. It’s a water main project, and it’ll have the beneficial side effect of a newly paved road.
On the plus side, right turns onto Thistle from Victoria have become 100x easier for bus drivers.
Hey OP/neighbour,
The store’s open again.
ex-fucking-cuse me! A bitch is a bitch. It’s about ranting, not being told to move to fucking Africa. My baby’s name is Audrey, I know it’s spelled BACKHOE, and I know a new water main is necessary. To all of you who can’t just let a Bitch be a Bitch, I hope YOUR whole street gets shut down for two weeks, you get woken up early on one of your only days off in MONTHS, and that the most convenient things to you get closed down by construction.
ex-fucking-cuse me! A bitch is a bitch. It’s about ranting, not being told to move to fucking Africa. My baby’s name is Audrey, I know it’s spelled BACKHOE, and I know a new water main is necessary. To all of you who can’t just let a Bitch be a Bitch, I hope YOUR whole street gets shut down for two weeks, you get woken up early on one of your only days off in MONTHS, and that the most convenient things to you get closed down by construction.
Also I am the farthest thing from stupid. I’ve never owned a car in my life, My mom used to make us walk from Cole Harbor to Halifax, and I know how far Dartmouth shopping centre is. Its not about how far away that shit is, it’s about the fact that it is merely annoying, much like you chumps who think I’m stupid/ignorant.
Way to take a joke personnally Mad Mom. If you don’t want someone to make fun of your spelling and grammar, read it over before you post it. And there’s really no need to post comments twice; we get that you’re upset.
Secondly, I agree with everyone else that doesn’t think your bitch is interesting. You even said it’s only been going on for 1 day. Construction is necessary and we all have to put up with it.
You’re not special and nobody really cares what your baby’s name is.
You know what? You don’t have to care. No one is holding a gun to your head saying ‘read this or die.’ If you don’t care, don’t post. And posting twice was an error. Pardon me if my Wii remote is a bitch.
Sounds like someone needs a nappy wappy.
Oh wait, you can’t sleep because of the noisy construction… Sucks to be you!
sounds like someone needs a cup of shut the fuck up.
You sound delightful! Wanna go steady?
You’d need to BE steady first.
Hey, madmom, just a warning. I would be really careful about putting information about your daughter out on the internet. Although probably not a big deal, you never know what creepo’s are out there in internet land and as of right now, someone could have the name of your kid and a pretty good location of where you live. Just saying
thanks fall, i was just clarifying the fact that my baby’s name is not Daughter,. Apparantly a capitol letter in the wrong place really fucks some people up.
I’m obviously not into the hip slang of these days, but do people who know it’s spelt backhoe really call them Baccos now? Seems like more of an “Urban Garlic” mistake to me.
I was typing fast. Heaven forbid one makes a small grammatical error. Will the world stop turning if I were to spell it ‘wurld’? Nope, we’re still here. Looks like everything’s going to be just fine.
For the record, this Mad Mom ain’t me. I never say “friggin'”
5 minutes is enough time to change accounts, Kay & MM.
nice to know you were not scared (not really the right word) off Kay. I like hearing different opinions even when I don’t agree with them.
Whoa now. I’m definitly not crazy. I’ve seen the back-and-forth of you guys. I know it may seem handy, but I’m not kay.
Also, I apologize for calling the guys working on Thistle douches. They’ve already got the street paved back up and open to traffic. I spoke out of tiredness. (you have no idea what sleep dep does to me). Keep up the good work!
There you go, Dino. I never apologize to you bitches. Typing fast.. I don’t have that problem either.