WELL, I THOUGHT that yesterday they'd replace the telephone poll down the road, the one which has to be replaced before, MAYBE, my internet will be reliable to any extent. A car with a little yellow light was parked there with a big guy with a big beard sitting in it for a quarter of an hour and I thought, Oh, the poll must be coming. Well, other than getting all the dogs within earshot of the one that was barking at him going nothing happened. I needed to get down the road to do a chore so I was going down and the guy was getting out with something in his hand.
I said, "Are they finally replacing the poll?'
He said, "I don't know. Could be today, could be in thirty days. I'm just here to put these on door knobs."
They were notices saying that the poll had to be replaced and that they'd be doing some excavation to put it in. I guess they figure we were as unclued into that as the power company apparently has been. Thing is still held in place by a 4x4 bolted into the two ends, still looking like a stiff wind could blow the whole thing and all the wires down. The cable guy who came out to look at it told me that it was really dangerous to have it propped up like that. Like that wasn't obvious, too. He said he couldn't fix the wires till they replaced the poll.
And Maine is supposed to have one of the better public utility commissions, or so they tell us. They're probably going to give the power company that big increase they're asking for to deal with the damage to the system two winters ago. Ain't capitalism wunnerful!
You'd think they'd at least send some skinny kid working for them over the summer out to put those knob hangers out instead of some guy who looks like a lineworker.
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