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They finished replacing the gas service to my house today. There were
apparently no leaks and the only appliance that needed relighting was the water heater. One of the crew members was nice enough to light it for me and made sure I tested my stove, furnace and dryer. Everything worked fine. The crew was as nice as I expected them to be based on our previous conversations. They offered me options for the placement of my meter and even did a little landscaping for me. Allow me to explain... My meter is on the side of my house, about 3 feet from the front corner. The pipe into the house comes out of the meter, wraps around the corner to the front of the house and enters through the block foundation. There are bushes across the front of the house which wrap around the corner and hide the meter. Unfortunately, they also overhang a portion of the walkway along the side of the house. For the past few years, SWMBO and I have talked about ripping out all of the bushes and building a raised planter out of landscaping blocks so she can add even more plants to our lot. Things keep coming up, the season ends and we go another year without changing anything. So the crew chief rings my bell at 7 this morning and asks me to come outside. He points to the meter behind the bush, states that the riser I have is no longer to code and that they have to dig it out and replace it. Based on the locations of the bases of the bushes, they can either move the meter to the front where the pipe enters the house or they will have to rip out the 3 bushes that round the corner. It took me about 1/2 second to tell them to leave the meter where it is and rip out the bushes. They appeared a bit surprised that I answered so quickly, but I told them that my wife and I had already talked about it and we were kind of hoping that they would tell us the bushes had to go. We hoped it would get us kick started for our landscaping project next spring. They laughed, said OK and started up the excavator. After they were done I grabbed a bottle of vinyl siding cleaner, scrubbed the green crap off of the siding that had been behind the bushes and swept the now accessible walkway. Even though the meter is now exposed, I'm glad the bushes are gone. If we wrap the planter around the side of the house like the bushes were, a couple of plants or _small_ bushes will hide it again. All in all, it worked out rather well. |
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On 11/18/2013 4:03 PM, DerbyDad03 wrote:
They finished replacing the gas service to my house today. There were apparently no leaks and the only appliance that needed relighting was the water heater. One of the crew members was nice enough to light it for me and made sure I tested my stove, furnace and dryer. Everything worked fine. The crew was as nice as I expected them to be based on our previous conversations. They offered me options for the placement of my meter and even did a little landscaping for me. Allow me to explain... My meter is on the side of my house, about 3 feet from the front corner. The pipe into the house comes out of the meter, wraps around the corner to the front of the house and enters through the block foundation. There are bushes across the front of the house which wrap around the corner and hide the meter. Unfortunately, they also overhang a portion of the walkway along the side of the house. For the past few years, SWMBO and I have talked about ripping out all of the bushes and building a raised planter out of landscaping blocks so she can add even more plants to our lot. Things keep coming up, the season ends and we go another year without changing anything. So the crew chief rings my bell at 7 this morning and asks me to come outside. He points to the meter behind the bush, states that the riser I have is no longer to code and that they have to dig it out and replace it. Based on the locations of the bases of the bushes, they can either move the meter to the front where the pipe enters the house or they will have to rip out the 3 bushes that round the corner. It took me about 1/2 second to tell them to leave the meter where it is and rip out the bushes. They appeared a bit surprised that I answered so quickly, but I told them that my wife and I had already talked about it and we were kind of hoping that they would tell us the bushes had to go. We hoped it would get us kick started for our landscaping project next spring. They laughed, said OK and started up the excavator. After they were done I grabbed a bottle of vinyl siding cleaner, scrubbed the green crap off of the siding that had been behind the bushes and swept the now accessible walkway. Even though the meter is now exposed, I'm glad the bushes are gone. If we wrap the planter around the side of the house like the bushes were, a couple of plants or _small_ bushes will hide it again. All in all, it worked out rather well. You da man! Glad it turned out so well, for you. -- .. Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus www.lds.org .. |
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 21:03:13 +0000 (UTC), DerbyDad03
wrote: So the crew chief rings my bell at 7 this morning and asks me to come outside. He points to the meter behind the bush, states that the riser I have is no longer to code and that they have to dig it out and replace it. Based on the locations of the bases of the bushes, they can either move the meter to the front where the pipe enters the house or they will have to rip out the 3 bushes that round the corner. It took me about 1/2 second to tell them to leave the meter where it is and rip out the bushes. They appeared a bit surprised that I answered so quickly, but I told them that my wife and I had already talked about it and we were kind of hoping that they would tell us the bushes had to go. We hoped it would get us kick started for our landscaping project next spring. They laughed, said OK and started up the excavator. Good things come to those who wait? I'm a fan of procrastination, but not my bride |
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On 11/18/2013 8:57 PM, Oren wrote:
Good things come to those who wait? I'm a fan of procrastination, but not my bride You put off getting married (to all those others) until the perfect one arrived? -- .. Christopher A. Young Learn about Jesus www.lds.org .. |
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On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:57:15 -0700, Oren wrote:
...snip.... Good things come to those who wait? I'm a fan of procrastination, but not my bride You have to admit that society 'trains' one to procrastinate. For example: 1. When matriculating [is that the right word?] at Stanford, I had everything prepared, read, planned, laid out a working schedule of classes. Then being so prepared when I actually registered took almost two hours! Forewarned the next year I simply showed up, almost late, and the assisstants paniced at how late I was, so whisked me through registration. Time? about 5 minutes. 2. DMV renewal with testing required...Showed up early waited and waited and waited [You've seen the Gahan Wilson cartoon of the collapsed skeleton from being forced to wait so long?] Next time [a few years later] I showed up 10 minutes before they closed [so they HAD to take me] they all paniced I took a written test, got a photograph and was out in less than 15 minutes. 3. Most important of all. Had a huge problem pending, hanging over my head, that I worried about for months and months. Then, things changed and problem evaporated. I was only out the worry, no actions reuqired. Society TEACHES us to procrastinate. |
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On 11-19-2013, 10:02, RobertMacy wrote:
2. DMV renewal with testing required...Showed up early waited and waited and waited [You've seen the Gahan Wilson cartoon of the collapsed skeleton from being forced to wait so long?] Next time [a few years later] I showed up 10 minutes before they closed [so they HAD to take me] they all paniced I took a written test, got a photograph and was out in less than 15 minutes. We solved that problem here. Close at six, no applications will be started after five. -- Wes Groleau People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. €” Peg Bracken |
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"RobertMacy" wrote in message
stuff snipped Society TEACHES us to procrastinate. Efficiency teaches us to procrastinate because some stuff that's put off does eventually solve itself. What could be more efficient? (-; -- Bobby G. |
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