Have you ever woke up to construction work? I have - about every other day since living in this shitty apartment, which has been since 2003. Firstly, just as we moved in, they ripped apart the street on the corner, trying to repair pipes or whatever. To get to the train station everyday you had to go through a maze of objects and stupid people who stand with their jaw dropped looking at the bulldozer driving around - don't they have other things to do??? I can't even imagine what it was like to the people living right above the train station. And if an underground pipe snaps right after they covered it with ground and concrete - guess what - they're tearing it up again!
Anyway, so it took them about SIX YEARS to fix the street - the explanation is, construction workers are all in unions and the project is government-financed, so the workers take their sweet time. Oh and I forgot to mention - when construction next to a subway station occurs, a lot of rats and mice escape and invade nearby houses, so we had mice problems. Also many idiots honked while passing by - because often it would be a very tight passage. To cross the street you almost had to play frogger, because you simply couldn't see cars coming from right or left. I almost got hit by a car quite a few times, mostly because here in Brooklyn, many drivers don't feel like slowing down while driving through construction.
Just as I couldn't get enough construction noise, neighbors in the next apartment moved out, and the super was doing renovation. Imagine waking up a few days during the week from a giant sledgehammer ramming the sidewalk, that you feel your house shake, for about 6 years. After the road repairs ended in 2009, another neighbor moved in upstairs - renovation again! Some incompetent ass wipe upstairs was hammering the wall for the whole week - the only thing that required using the hammer at that time was attaching the kitchen cabinet (I know this because the noise was always coming from the kitchen upstairs, which is right above our kitchen). A normal carpenter, or in the case of Brooklyn, a Mexican with construction experience could attach kitchen cabinets in 6 hours, but this ass wipe did it the whole week straight.
After the neighbor upstairs finally moved in, he decided to hold a wood shop in the hallway - so again, the whole house is shaking with noise of wood sawn and hammer noise! From 3 pm till 8 pm, until my father got up and said if he won't stop, he's gonna whoop his sorry butt, so luckily, the neighbor stopped doing it. Then outside renovation of a building across the block... Then outside renovation of a building right across our house... And today, I wake up to some douchebag scraping mortar like its cool, where every scrape echoes across everyone's concrete-covered back yards. Fuck you construction, and fuck you brooklyn. And if you're thinking to build a garage in your backyard (and you live in brooklyn) - fuck you too. :mfinger:
Edit for Centered: Smaller paragraphs now - let me know if these still look too big for your 14'' monitor with 640 by 480 res
Anyway, so it took them about SIX YEARS to fix the street - the explanation is, construction workers are all in unions and the project is government-financed, so the workers take their sweet time. Oh and I forgot to mention - when construction next to a subway station occurs, a lot of rats and mice escape and invade nearby houses, so we had mice problems. Also many idiots honked while passing by - because often it would be a very tight passage. To cross the street you almost had to play frogger, because you simply couldn't see cars coming from right or left. I almost got hit by a car quite a few times, mostly because here in Brooklyn, many drivers don't feel like slowing down while driving through construction.
Just as I couldn't get enough construction noise, neighbors in the next apartment moved out, and the super was doing renovation. Imagine waking up a few days during the week from a giant sledgehammer ramming the sidewalk, that you feel your house shake, for about 6 years. After the road repairs ended in 2009, another neighbor moved in upstairs - renovation again! Some incompetent ass wipe upstairs was hammering the wall for the whole week - the only thing that required using the hammer at that time was attaching the kitchen cabinet (I know this because the noise was always coming from the kitchen upstairs, which is right above our kitchen). A normal carpenter, or in the case of Brooklyn, a Mexican with construction experience could attach kitchen cabinets in 6 hours, but this ass wipe did it the whole week straight.
After the neighbor upstairs finally moved in, he decided to hold a wood shop in the hallway - so again, the whole house is shaking with noise of wood sawn and hammer noise! From 3 pm till 8 pm, until my father got up and said if he won't stop, he's gonna whoop his sorry butt, so luckily, the neighbor stopped doing it. Then outside renovation of a building across the block... Then outside renovation of a building right across our house... And today, I wake up to some douchebag scraping mortar like its cool, where every scrape echoes across everyone's concrete-covered back yards. Fuck you construction, and fuck you brooklyn. And if you're thinking to build a garage in your backyard (and you live in brooklyn) - fuck you too. :mfinger:
Edit for Centered: Smaller paragraphs now - let me know if these still look too big for your 14'' monitor with 640 by 480 res
