Tonight's game

h2oville rocket · Post by **h2oville rocket** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:54 pm

ZiggyZoomba wrote:According to my wife, we can't get in or out of my garage/driveway b/c of the snow and the way the plows have "cleared" the alley, so I need to go home and take care of that I guess.... *sigh*

Wow, you new parents. Grant! You have kids now! That's why we have kids. Call home, tell, uh, what'shername, to get out in the drive and start shoveling or no milk! You gotta be firm and ya gotta start early.

cph2133 · Post by **cph2133** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:38 pm

Warthog wrote:Forgot to add that my kids better have the driveway and sidewalks shoveled before I get home so I don't have to do that myslef.

You should pull the card my dad used to. Come home (if not shoveled) and ask the wife "where are the hospital bills? the kids must have had broken arms since they didn't shovel the driveway!"

Needless to say, the drive was never unshoveled when he got home after that...

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:48 pm

cph2133 wrote:
Warthog wrote:Forgot to add that my kids better have the driveway and sidewalks shoveled before I get home so I don't have to do that myslef.
You should pull the card my dad used to. Come home (if not shoveled) and ask the wife "where are the hospital bills? the kids must have had broken arms since they didn't shovel the driveway!"

Needless to say, the drive was never unshoveled when he got home after that...

Driveway and sidewalks were clear when I arrived home.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:52 pm

hammb wrote:
Warthog wrote:
hammb wrote:I can pretty much guarantee my mailbox will be knocked over,
For the second straight year, the city trucks have taken out my mailbox. Last year I was able to repair, this year it looks like a fatality. It's hanging on by two little screws now. But the city takes no repsonsibilty for this. It's my fault for having a mailbox where they are plowing.
Are you SURE?

I worked for the city all 4 years I was in college and I know one of our yearly spring projects was putting up new mailboxes that had been knocked over by the plows. That said, that may not apply in quail hollow if you guys have strange mailbox restrictions out there. I know we would replace them with a standard mailbox, but if it was a fancy one or a subdevelopment that had a required mailbox we did not.

Make sure to at least give them a call and let them know, they might do something. Usually the problem is that the mailbox hangs over the curb. They will plow up to the curb and if the mailbox hangs over the street it will get clipped. Not much they can do about it if you want them to plow all the way to the curb.

In my case they usually don't even hit it. It's the fact that I only get one plow a day and it goes 50 mph and throws all of the accumulated snow at the box that knocks it over. It's no longer even attached to the base, that got destroyed in the first snow this year. I'm not fixing it in the cold, so I just set it back there, knowing that it'll get knocked over every time. I'll fix it right in the spring.

City will NOT pay. They sent out a letter last winter after at least half the mailboxes in Quail Hollow were dinged. Said they are not responsible and that it was hit because it hung over the curb. I checked mine. If it does hang over the curb, it is by no more than an inch. Last year, the mailbox got loosened off the arm it sets on. This year, the entire arm is knocked off.

Guess I'll have to go to WalMart and get one of those generic green plastic ones.