Friday, September 2, 2011

Fixing the Driveway -- Not Looking A Gift Horse in the Mouth

The day the contractors (AJW) showed up, they started work fast.  Basically they showed up with a lot of large equipment very early in the morning.  Only then did they knock on the door to say they were going to rip apart our driveway and wouldn't be able to use it during the week.  We ought to move our cars.

This was another situation where I could imagine someone getting REALLY po'ed with the contractors and the City.  Didn't get any prior notice.  Didn't get any opportunity to say we agree or disagree.  Just told to move our cars.

Under the circumstances -- and lucky for the City -- we weren't angry at all.  We were really psyched about getting the driveway fixed.  I moved our car out of the driveway fast and parked up the street.  Didn't think about it when it took over two weeks for them to fix the driveway, instead of the initial four days that they had said we wouldn't have use of it.

I would suggest that the City try to do a bit better in terms of at least notifying residents about stuff like this though...

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