You know who everybody hates? The inventor of individual sized ketchup packages. It has to be hard to find a single person out there who looks at him in a good light. And yet, we bet ketchup boy still has more of a fan club then the guy digging to China at 6am with a 10,000-horse power jackhammer right outside of our window. Because as soon as Early Morning Construction Worker lights up his first Red of the day we know there isn’t a single second of shut eye to be had until happy hour at the Jed’s Adult Jerk Shack pulls him away.
Obviously we understand that EMCW is just a hard working, blue collar, American man, making a living with his hand. But it is hard to be rational when you are woken up by the soundtrack of Bad Boys II played on steel pipes underneath your CO-OP brownstone. It’s tough to find any sympathy when our slacking, trust-fund, liberal ass doesn’t have to be at the blog café until 1pm. Especially when the entire night was spent playing a Malaysian bootleg copy of Modern War Fare 3 and screen printing ironic socialist t-shirts to sell for 50 bucks to Berkley Students. Can’t a 28 year-old journalism major just get some deserved rest? It’s scary out there, the last thing we need is some affront to our masculinity actually getting shit done before the View is over.
How about we reschedule 7am sawing to a more sensible hour? Say 2pm? We guarantee we’ll be up, showered and dressed in fine imported denim with pre-ripped knees. That way we can all go about our mornings without the unnecessary embarrassment of us trying to re-pave your right cheek bone, and you being caught on CCTV knocking out the future president of MoveOn.org. It’s win-win.
Amen, Mrs. P. I’ll vote for you for city council.
Worse from my point of view is when these guys shut down lanes of travel during rush hour. I think they should have to work on the streets during the lightest travel times including overnight. Why not – they have lights for that. They act like it’s all about them! What about the rest of us schlepping to work to pay taxes amounting to more than half of our income to fund these guys union wages and cadillac health insurance and pensions? Why can’t it be about us for once?