I came home tonight from work to a beautiful sight. A steamroller was doing its thing on the street beside our house. My heart skipped a beat. You see, when we arrived at our new home a sign was posted on the door: Construction to begin September 5, to upgrade the water lines, ending November 30.
Every day since September 5, excluding weekends, I have woken up to the noise of heavy machinery and their blasted, backing up beeping. I have tried my best to ignore it, and have been quite successful. Even yesterday when they were pouring sidewalks I didn't get too excited because I thought to myself "They won't finish the project on time, they never finish these projects on time" Especially because its been such a rainy fall in Ottawa. Rain delays these projects I hear.
But when I saw that steam roller in all its steam rolling glory today I couldn't help it. I think they're going to be done when they said. I can't wait! The silence will be golden. No more beeping or heavy diesel engines or City of Ottawa workers outside my windows yelling to each other. I'll just have the sound of traffic, which I think will be bliss in comparison.
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Sorry I've been so negligent in keeping in touch. Sounds like you are adjusting to your new home. Please give me a call....hopefully you still have my number and I haven't been deleted from your database due to my silence :) Miss you.
Sharelle
I was in Vancouver a number of weeks ago, and was witness to a group of city workers fixing something like a water main on a residential street corner. Six out of seven of the men were leaning on shovels, jaws a waggin'. There was quite the commentary coming from the street corner that sunny morning.
This is when it hit me. SMACK! You might be familiar with the T.V. show Train 48? Imagine a similar show where groups of city workers are standing around with shovels and a backhoe, with nothing better to do but gossip and comment about the locals! It would be mostly improv, along a prescribe story board. Add the odd steamroller into the mix, and voila, an instant hit. Only in Canada.
i also enjoy steamrollers. they would be a useful tool to have around the house, say to terraform a nice badminton court, or lawn bowling pitch, or to make extra thin crust pizza
i also believe that people would enjoy a show about real relationships and steamrollers. not a cheesy one liner sitcom, but a show grappling with real relational issues in the presence of steamrollers.
marc
Clearly this is the next step in the evolution of television.
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