Normally things just never seem to go normally for me and any whining over that fact will normally bring swift and unforgiving admonishment from the wife . I’m thinking men would normally have more sympathetic wives but perhaps we should take this in another direction . Like the present “normal” .
It’s likely I’ll never be lottery winning lucky but the wife is right in that sometimes I do have a bit of good fortune . There is a giant blue tarp over the roof for instance that is successfully keeping out the rain while the lights and air conditioner are on . Internet is up and running as well and I’ve just been told it’s safe to make coffee with tap water though I know many who still do not have any of the above luxuries …… but I just need to whine again and so I’ll do it here where she can’t hear . .
One of the civilized worlds most treasured luxuries go’s unheralded until times like this and that is the weekly Thursday morning routine of trash pick up . Does’t take long to notice when normal routine is disrupted and buzzards are perched on your garbage barrel attracted by the pungent aroma …. and that normal routine has now been disrupted for quite some time on my street .
A large box truck made a delivery across the street last week to replace the wet and ceiling stained furniture that will now sit street side for God knows how long . When the truck left it nudged a heavy cable that crossed the road causing it to loosen a connection and hang low enough to prevent a pick up truck from passing . It’s an internet cable and I feared someone would drive through and knock out internet again . That turned out to be but a secondary problem made obvious by the joyous sounds of the garbage truck coming from the next street before emitting it’s loud back up warning to tell us all he wasn’t coming .
I’ve erected a twelve foot pole with a home made hook and lashed it to someone’s mailbox to successfully raise the offensive cable high enough to drive a garbage truck under . But still they don’t come …. and the wife is about to whine… and that just ain’t normal
