INCREDIBLE HULK

Okay. I'm usually a pretty even keeled person (except for the 28 out of 30 days a month I'm pms-ing). But there is something happening in my neighborhood that has been bugging the CRAP outta me!

The triple decker apartment building across the street is getting painted. But there is ONE guy doing it and he's in one of those lift things. You know it looks like a cherry picker on steroids...and it's blue. AND IT BEEPS.

AND BEEPS AND BEEPS AND BEEPS AND BEEPS AND BEEPS!!!

It beeps if you move it. It beeps if it's uneven. It double beeps if you move it AND it's uneven. Well, this guy has been painting for two weeks now. I have heard so much beeping that I have been going out of my BEEPING mind!

So, yesterday I said something to him. I had to whistle like I was calling a cab to get his attention, because of the...yup, beeping. He was sitting in the little cage a couple of stories up NOT moving and painting while his steroid cherry picker beeped.

I said, "Hi."

He said, "I know, I know...I'm trying to work quickly and not disturb the neighborhood." (too late buddy).

I asked, "Why are you beeping?"
"Because it's uneven, and if I could drive through that tree it would stop beeping."

I said dejected, "Oh," and walked away.

I think he hates me. But today the beeping was much better. He either leveled that BEEPing thing or simply used an old fashioned ladder! But I feel less like the Incredible Hulk with less beeping.