Rude Awakening. July 24, 2008

This morning at about 7:00 am I was sleeping peacefully when all of a sudden I hear the siren of what sounds like a bullhorn.  I thought that maybe it was just the police trying to pull someone over or get someone’s attention.  Then a few minutes later I hear “ALL CARS ON *** STREET MUST BE MOVED”.  What?!?!  I know it’s a street sweeping day but there are signs and that should be enough, right?  If there are still cars on the street just give them tickets.  This went on for about 30 minutes and the whole time I was getting more and more frustrated because Ellie hadn’t woken up yet and I was afraid that this was going to do it, and all I wanted was to be able to sleep in as long as possible.  If you haven’t figured it out from my previous posts, I love my sleep.  After about 30 minutes of the jerk going up and down the street with his bull horn announcing that anyone parked on the street had to move I finally heard nothing, and thought for sure that he was done.  Oh no, I was wrong.  The guy then went around to the alley behind the buildings to make sure that anyone who lives in the back would hear him.  He did that for about 30 minutes as well.  I was so mad that I just wanted to do out there and punch the guy in the face and yell, “JUST TOW THE F***ING CARS IF YOU WANT THEM OUT OF THE WAY SO BAD!  I DIDN’T PARK ON THE STREET SO LET ME SLEEP!”.  As you can see, I am also not a very nice person when my sleep is disturbed.  I didn’t do this however because I didn’t want to be arrested or fined or whatever for assault.  Plus, The guy was probably way bigger than me and even though I’ve been doing some pushups, I probably wouldn’t have been able to take him.