Fourth Ave DIY

So today we have a man coming to fix the hole in our driveway. For some reason this hole was covered with a wooden board when it was first created and no one can think why. My suspicion is that it was the previous owners and their lax atttitude. Every time someone drives over the board it makes a banging noise and it’s really starting to grate on my nerves - not to mention that the board itself is breaking down.

However, I have this fear that someone is going to draw something obscene in the cement while we are at work or drive through it despite the fact I warned the neighbours that this work was coming up. This is for three reasons:

1. Our neighbours don’t seem like they would care about our cementing even though for the people down the back who share our driveway it’s their driveway too. For the next door neighbours they care even less as it’s not their driveway - our request to them was that they not park in their driveway if possible right by the hole so that the people down the back can edge around the cement and go down in their cars.

2. The next door neighbours actually have an obscene drawing in some patched cement outside their house. It’s an outline of a penis. Potentially it was there when they moved in but despite their lax attitude to their property/mowing etc why would you not want that filled in? If anyone is going to draw in our cement, it should be us!

3. The tradesman who is coming to do the job seems nice but a bit vague. I am hoping that he will at the very least put a little fence thing around the cement so that people in their cars can see that it has been done.

Friends have suggested that we should have stayed home with deck chairs to watch over the cement. Now the more I think on the subject it does seem like a good idea, if not a bit on the overkill side. However, with a perfectionist attitude to DIY (I know, almost an oxymoron in this city) I can’t help fretting about the whole thing. Hopefully it all goes smoothly and I don’t spend the weekend guarding over a drying patch on the patch.

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