Mud-puppy
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Most of y'all know, back in July the Wife and I moved into the Sleepy Tyme Olde Folks Appartments...From day one there has been this massive pothole right where a guy has to turn out of the side street and onto the main drag...It gets hit constantly by everybody leaving the PiggleyWiggley and the GasNGo and all the Oldsters and the delivery drivers and just about Everybody turning right!..KaBang!.
Of course, I simply straddle it or go around it and avoid it altogether with no trouble, but the Wife seems drawn into it and hits it constantly like theres nothing she can do! Of course, I've had to listen to Her this and that about "That dmaned pothole got me again! Why wont somebody fill it? Whos responsibility is it I wonder? The State Highway or the Piggley or the StopNRob or the County Road Commission or just exactly WHO?"
Six Months of listening to her complaining about that pothole daily! I lovingly advised, "Just go around it like I do ya durned dummy!" Of course this common sense advice only makes her madder and for some reason? Her ill mood about the pothole is directed straight at ME!..Somebody Has to do Something!
So Yesterday, I asked her what she wanted for Christmas? "(A new Broom perhaps? How about a nice OCedar Angler that you can speed around the oval track at Hogworts on? Maybe I can string some Christmas lights up on the roof for a nice nighttime landing strip for ya?? Maybe stick a bicycle flag up on the chimney for you to use as a windsock?") (This is what I was thinking of saying...)
"All I want for Christmas is for somebody to fix that dmaned pothole!"
Since today it got up into the 40's for the last time until next Spring, and since the waves were huge and it was too rough to hunt the Big Lake effectively, I figured WTH? On the way back from the Lake, I stopped at the Lappo Lumberyard and got a 60lb bag of fast set 5000 psi with fiber...the good stuff, set me back $8.12!...Then, for filler, I got another 60lb bag of the cheap regular mix for a mailbox kind of thing for $3.36...So lets see, I'm out $13 and a nickel after taxes...thats like half a morning of totlot money!
That was one hell of a pothole! Took Both sacks! I thought, "Thats 120lbs of annoying and auto damaging dangerousness!" Like the average teenage kid I guess...
Anyway, my Christmas shopping is done!...I didnt tell my Wife I was the one who filled it though, I want to see if she notices or has any complaints about the workmanship or derogatory comments about the dmaned dummy who used concrete instead of coldpatch! This coccamamie repair aint gonna last...but thats not the point, as of now its FILLED and Christmas is only a week away so she got her wish!
I left that water jug out there in the street as some sort of traffic cone...The Wife asked.."Wheres my waterjug dammit? I use that to fill the Humidifyer" So I had to go back and get it...
Of course, I simply straddle it or go around it and avoid it altogether with no trouble, but the Wife seems drawn into it and hits it constantly like theres nothing she can do! Of course, I've had to listen to Her this and that about "That dmaned pothole got me again! Why wont somebody fill it? Whos responsibility is it I wonder? The State Highway or the Piggley or the StopNRob or the County Road Commission or just exactly WHO?"
Six Months of listening to her complaining about that pothole daily! I lovingly advised, "Just go around it like I do ya durned dummy!" Of course this common sense advice only makes her madder and for some reason? Her ill mood about the pothole is directed straight at ME!..Somebody Has to do Something!
So Yesterday, I asked her what she wanted for Christmas? "(A new Broom perhaps? How about a nice OCedar Angler that you can speed around the oval track at Hogworts on? Maybe I can string some Christmas lights up on the roof for a nice nighttime landing strip for ya?? Maybe stick a bicycle flag up on the chimney for you to use as a windsock?") (This is what I was thinking of saying...)
"All I want for Christmas is for somebody to fix that dmaned pothole!"
Since today it got up into the 40's for the last time until next Spring, and since the waves were huge and it was too rough to hunt the Big Lake effectively, I figured WTH? On the way back from the Lake, I stopped at the Lappo Lumberyard and got a 60lb bag of fast set 5000 psi with fiber...the good stuff, set me back $8.12!...Then, for filler, I got another 60lb bag of the cheap regular mix for a mailbox kind of thing for $3.36...So lets see, I'm out $13 and a nickel after taxes...thats like half a morning of totlot money!
That was one hell of a pothole! Took Both sacks! I thought, "Thats 120lbs of annoying and auto damaging dangerousness!" Like the average teenage kid I guess...
Anyway, my Christmas shopping is done!...I didnt tell my Wife I was the one who filled it though, I want to see if she notices or has any complaints about the workmanship or derogatory comments about the dmaned dummy who used concrete instead of coldpatch! This coccamamie repair aint gonna last...but thats not the point, as of now its FILLED and Christmas is only a week away so she got her wish!
I left that water jug out there in the street as some sort of traffic cone...The Wife asked.."Wheres my waterjug dammit? I use that to fill the Humidifyer" So I had to go back and get it...
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