There was no sleeping in TODAY. These guys got to work around 0945 hrs and they're jes a lil bit... umm... intrusive.
So... I step outside to take the pic and one of the tree dudes gets VERY defensive, as in "We notified the park owner yesterday that we'd be here today!" "Well, yeah, OK"... sez I... "No worries, this is just blog fodder." "Whut?" sez he. I should have just said "Never mind" coz he still didn't geddit after at least six minutes of explanation.
Added, 1300 hrs: Did I say a LIL BIT intrusive? Why, I think I did...
I like the name on the truck:
ReplyDelete"Um, I asplundh it to da park owner arreddy!"
I loved those blogfodder movies! Well, not part III so much, but the first two were awesome!
ReplyDeleteAndy: And that was just about the enunciation used, too.
ReplyDeleteInno: That was dude's FIRST reaction: "Blogfather? (fadder, actually)... whut's THAT?"
Yeah, never mention "blog" unless you're talking to someone on-line. Too much explaining.
ReplyDeleteYou should have told him you were designing post cards. Asplundh does tree trimming service up here too. Didn't realize they were a national company.
ReplyDeleteDang! Talk about having someone standing over you.....
ReplyDeleteJim: Yeah, you'd think people know 'bout these things. But they don't.
ReplyDeleteBR: One of the guys I was talkin' with sez he spends a LOT o' time on the road and was thinkin' about buyin' an RV. I told him that's a good ideer...
Staci: And in yer face, too!
ReplyDeleteE-yikes! Heavy, heavy hangs over thy head . . . . Indoor Happy Hour today? Or so you plan to share with the Gesundheit Guy?
ReplyDeleteNow that is one helluva invasion of personal space.
ReplyDeleteAsplundh is nationwide; we see them around here too.
Indoor Happy Hour today?
ReplyDeleteYup, but not because of tree-trimmers. We have a front moving in and the wind she is oppressive. That's too danged bad, too... as it's about 70 out.
Kris: It is, indeed. Especially when they get about ten inches off starboard.
Asplundh is big-time in that biz. Hey man...
ReplyDeleteBlog whoring here. I wrote this little post almost two years ago.
http://andysredneckramblings.blogspot.com/2009/02/line-maintenance.html
Heh. I didn't know there was a version of Photoshop for the Etch-A-Sketch. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhenever I was screwing up in school or at home the old man would tell me the world needs ditch diggers too. Luckily I straightened up but I'm going to lump in tree trimmers with them now. I'll bet tree dude had dead eyes and breathed through his mouth.
ReplyDeleteI hope they didn't take too much of your summer shade.
I'm just glad they finally got around to it...those branches were getting a bit close last time I saw them!
ReplyDeleteThe second pic was EXACTLY what I pictured after you first described the first tree trimming to me...great stuff!
SN1
Buck, "etch-a-sketch." Nyuk!
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was a pretty poor artist rendition. Then again, I flunked finger-paint in Kindergarten.
I'll bet tree dude had dead eyes and breathed through his mouth.
ReplyDeleteClose. Let's just say he was less than inquisitive. And your father and mine said the same sorta stuff!
Buck: I almost posted the same pic I used three or four years ago... It was basically the same drill.