by R. Lipscomb

Created on: August 16, 2008   Last Updated: September 21, 2008

Summer days are filled with me working in my garden. My pride swells so much so when I am having a "Good garden year", I may snap a few photos of my garden to send to my friends and family who live far away. One summer morning, I woke and got up as usual and got dressed and went out to tend to my garden. Finding it basking in all its glory. Despite the rabbits eating my lettuce, the deer wanting my corn and this pesky little turtle eating my tomatoes, all was well this fine sunny summer morning. So, I return to my house and get dressed to go to town and get some daily errands done. I heard a noise outside and opened my door to find in my yard, some local cable service men and a cable service truck. I walked down my porch and asked them, was something wrong and they said, they were just running some new cable lines.

This is wonderful news to me. My cable goes out every times the wind blows. Was thinking about switching to satellite but these guys might make my day. I get into my car and take off for town. I finish my errands and come back to the house to see new lines hanging from the pole and men working away. I go inside and I went to put some laundry in my washer, which is located near the back of my house, and I hear this noise like a small engine. So I peek out the window, trying not to be caught looking at the cable men. I see two four wheelers. I just about faint, these atv's were in my garden, driving back and forth like, my garden did not even exist.

I drop my laundry, almost falling over the pile as I go running out of my laundry room, down the hallway and out the door. Down the steps like a mad person, I find the first cable installer I see and begin to yell. Yelling loudly, as if I was insane. "Stop, stop, stop, what you are doing right this minute". He politely turned to me and said, "We are almost done we will be out of here in just a few minutes".

Very impolitely, I picked up my cell phone and snapped it open and said "Give me the name of your supervisor, right now"! I began dialing the numbers on my walk back to the house. My body was shaking I was so mad at these people, when the supervisor answered the phone, I said my name and address and told him the brief details of what had happened, he said he will be right there.

After six months of free cable service, free dsl installation, and no late charges even when I was late paying the bill by two weeks, I look back at this story and can laugh. Funny as it may be now, I bet they think twice before disrespecting a garden ever again. Moral of this very true story: Look out at what the cable linemen are doing in your back yard, your garden may thank you.

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