Everyone Needs a Job

Every year around this time, I get nasty voice mails from people who are angry because the snow plows or snow blowers woke them up in the middle of the night, or in the early morning hours.  This morning I got one who didn't identify himself, nor give his property address, so the woman who manages the general mailbox sent it to me with the message that "this one has got to be one of your homeowners".  Since he didn't leave a call back number (we have caller id, but he obviously wanted to stay annonymous, so I left it at that) I didn't call him back, but I told my co worker that I have a new response to this, which was the first, but undoubtedly not the last call about early morning snow removal.

"Unemployment has hit everyone hard and we are doing our best to help the economy by employing the usually unemployable.  In doing so, we had to make some concessions.  All snow plowing operations will now be done after dark and before the sun rises so we can employ vampires.  They work cheap and they bring their werewolf friends with them.  The werewolves are especially good because they are strong and they have a fur coat, so they don't mind the cold."  I'm guessing this would also cut down on the number of homeowners who confront the plow operators, too.