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DAVID BENTLEY'S WEEKLY COLUMN |
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MUST BE NICE!
The contractor said, "Okay, men, let's button it up and stop for the day. Get the rest of the tar paper down, but don't start the other side yet." Obediently, his crew followed orders and climbed down from the roof. After all, who wouldn't want to knock off work in the middle of the afternoon on a sunny Friday? "Typical," I said to myself cynically. "They could have removed at least half the shingles on the other side of the roof and still been out of there by 5:00. Must be nice to just quit when you feel like it." I couldn't really blame them, though. It was a perfect day to head out to the beach or go for a bike ride. We'd had too much rain, snow and ice this winter; and the sunny afternoon was a pleasant relief. In fact I was tempted to follow the roofers' lead and call it a day myself. Eventually I finished my work, picked up my mail, got some groceries, and headed home. Exhausted from a busy week, I ate supper, read a couple of chapters in my library book, and drifted off to sleep. Sometime during the night, I turned off the lamp and managed to get from my easy chair to the bed. When I awakened to the sound of wind whistling outside my bedroom window, I got out of bed and opened the blinds. The sky was overcast and gray. The swaying trees told me the wind must be blowing about 25-30 mph. As I grabbed my robe and turned up the thermostat, I realized the contractor must have known the weather was going to change. People get hired because they know what they're doing. Then they get criticized by those of us who don't have a clue. When the experts are right, the rest of us eat crow. Yet we never seem to learn to trust them.
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