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As unbelievable as it may sound the following is an absolutely true incident:

If you didn't know we rent a house. Tania called me up at work because she was frustrated at how much of an idiot our property's owner's worker is. Due to recent powerful storms, our house's overhang's roof was falling apart, and this worker was going to fix the roof. So he had climbed up on the roof. Now imagine this...

The sky is black due to this crazy storm. Rain is pouring down. The wind is howling at peaks of 70mph. This previously mentioned worker, a Mexican American guy, is on our roof! in a yellow poncho wearing sunglasses with the powerful winds and downpour rain and a black sky overhead. You would think he would not be up there because of possible lightning. You would think he would not be up there because of the howling winds. You would think he would not be up there because of the wet, slick roof and the pouring rain. Well he was up there in his yellow poncho and still wearing sunglasses. He was up there taking down our DirecTV satellite.

You see this idiot had orders from his boss, the owner of the property, to remove the satellite from the roof because he was going replace parts of the overhang's roof. For some reason taking down the satellite was more important than his safety. But I haven't even told you the kicker yet! He climbs down his slick ladder with the DirecTV satellite in hand. He next walks away to grab some twine. Then he walks over to a nearby tree and places the satellite against the tree. He wraps the twine around and around the tree, fastening the satellite to the tree. This guy then leaves the satellite there, thinking his task is finished, with it tied to the tree and the coaxial cable (which was onced plugged into the satellite on the roof) just flapping in the storm's winds.

So after Tania looks through our window and sees our satellite twined to a tree, she goes outside and yells at this guy in the rainy gusts of wind, and tries to explain to this man whom doesn't understand English perectly that she can't watch TV as she says that the satellite is not facing the correct direction, and that you cannot tie it to a tree, and it needs a cable connected to it. Then to top it all off the yellow ponchoed man wearing sunglasses says to Tania in his garbled, Mexican-accented, poor English, "If you want I can tie it to another tree?" Tania looked at him blankly, flabergasted into shock at how stupid this guy is. Now this day was the same day as the Thailand Survivor finale, and so Tania's frustration blew up. With already dealing with the storm having left our house with no power she goes back into the house. She grabs River and things and then drives to her mom's house as she just cannot deal with all the storm's madness and this idiot. On her way to her mom's she calls me to explain this satellite story.

At the top of this page there are pictures of this tied-up satellite. After Tania left, the man did at least reattach the coaxial cable to the twined satellite. The pictures were taken the following morning. I have now been told that the owner does not want me to put the satellite on the roof. I have called DirecTV and to put the very last layer of frosting on the cake, it will cost $92 for a technician to professionally install the satellite somewhere else in my yard. So I will be doing it myself. sigh.

 

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