Bubba broke the camera out!!

when i first move in this house back in October, the neighborhood was pretty much a war zone. I'm not talking about in a bad way.  the city was upgrading the water lines, and working on a drainage problem. the road had been torn up pretty badly from bad drainage, and the construction going on.
the folks doing this work are under contract from the city. now, I'm not sure where you live at, but around here were quite used to seeing the city employee's screwing off. they are famous for pulling off the side of the road, and taking naps. the ones under contract seem to be a little better, but still they do somethings that make you scratch you head in wonderment.
it's been a few weeks since this happened. the crew doing the work set out fliers at every home telling that on Friday they were going to fix all the driveways on this street. they had dug up the end of every driveway that they had crossed during their work.
well,........sure enough Friday came, and they were doing what they said that they would be doing. i personally like it people keep their word, and stay on schedule. you might would have known that they started at the other end of the street, so our diveway was the last one to get done.
the first thing that happened was the guys that were setting the form's came out. they even curved out the end closest the street. it took several hours for the actual pouring of the concrete in our driveway. something very strange happen before the concrete truck made it to ours.
this worker started bringing 5 gallon buckets of concrete, from the driveway up the street, and dumping them in our driveway. i didn't understand why he would bucket that heavy concrete all that way, but he did.. here is a picture that proves it. it's a little blurry, but you can see where he poured the concrete from the buckets.

you can see that he lugged about five full buckets of heavy concrete from the driveway before ours. it was at least 100 feet from our driveway.

after he had done that i noticed that the concrete truck had to go get more before they could actually do the work.

 I'm not sure if you can tell, but the guy in green shirt, and white hat, has a shovel in his hand heading back to the other driveway that they had just finished with. I'm not sure who, are what the guy wearing the orange, but i will assume he is the smaller straw boss, because he sure is on the other guys ass!!
this next picture will show you what was in that shovel, and where it came from.

 yep,.............sure enough,..............same man that brought several buckets of concrete down, and poured them in the drive,................now,................he's making several trips back with a shovel, and carrying it right back where he brought it from!!
now,............i don't reckon that I'm the smartest redneck about certain things, but................something just ain't right about this dude. ya reckon that he is just bored, and making his work stretch out longer?          it seems to me that he could do it a lil' easier, than he is. if you noticed the concrete truck has pull up, and he is still carrying one shovel full at a time back.  he probably made a dozen, or more trips.

here is the driver of the truck. you can see him washing off the back of his truck. most of the drivers keep a clean truck. I'm really curious about one thing though,...................shouldn't he be washing it off after he pours the concrete out of the truck?  you can tell by the drive that he hasn't even allowed the first stone to roll out of the truck. i had another picture of him brushing down the truck, but it didn't turn out well.

this picture is just to show that they are up to code on having enough people standing around, with their hands in their pockets. you know that every contract job has a certain number of these type that don't do much but oversee. they are really good to have around in case something goes wrong. they huddle up like a bunch of referee's on the playing field, and decide who that they want to lose off the job!!

you can't tell me that i don't have a warped sense of humor!!  i love to exploit these types of things!  it's all in fun though.............cause you know that nothing is going to change.............

            ...........much love