Dig we must....

[brooklynite]

I live on a one-block street. The gas company is digging up one end of the street today, Verizon is digging up the other end; and there are three home renovation projects in the middle.

And the house behind me is tearing up their back patio.

[rickyhall]

1. Once when I was living in Crowley, Texas and working evening shift.

I backed out of my driveway only hear a crash at the end. During the day, while I was sleeping, the Street Department had removed from the street the top layer of payment, the curb and the end of my driveway. The rear end of my car hung in the air. Lucky it was it was a VW so didn't a driveshaft to bend.

[markie]

2. makes me

sometimes appreciate living in the back woods of Vermont...

[Pobeka]

3. Least you can do is plant a fall mum or two?

[brooklynite]

4. My wife hates them...

She plants other stuff.

[Totally Tunsie]

5. Sounds like the morning I was headed to work and pulled out of the driveway

to find the State had one end of the street dug up and impassable, and the City did the same with the other end. There was no way out (and no way in if emergency vehicles were needed). Neither was willing to stop the action and the road was too dismantled to let cars through. Called in to the boss, then called the Mayor's office, and finally found someone who had the authority to suspend the City work until the State was done. Tax dollars at work!