A Letter

Dear Georgia Department of Transportation,

I am interested that you have decided to pave the main road off of which I live. The road is only one house away from me, and it never struck me that it needed to be paved. There are lots of roads in worse condition in our area, so I would not have thought that this one would be of particular concern to you. However, I understand that the decision to pave has already been made. We country folks shall adapt.

What I may not be able to adapt to, though, is your schedule for paving. Why must you pave - and scrape and bang and rumble - overnight? Why must you begin at 10 PM? As I have mentioned, we are country folk. We go to bed early and generally enjoy sleeping all night...especially those of us with young babies. Also, the road out here is not overly traveled, so paving during the day would likely not cause much disarray.

You should be glad that I stopped my husband last night. Jokingly, I dared him to go to your workers and ask them to keep it down. Not jokingly, he began putting his shoes on and heading toward the door. Be glad I stopped him. He's not scary, but the scene would not have been pleasant for your nice road paver men. (I would like to mention here that I told my husband that if he went out to talk to the guys about their ruckus, I would sell everything I own and give him the money for golf clubs. I like my stuff, so I stopped him. It wasn't because I wanted the noise to continue.)

In the future, please consider a more appropriate road paving schedule. If you decide to do noisy work in the middle of the night, be prepared to send some of your road paver men inside to rock babies to sleep.

Seriously,

Crazy Sleepy Mama