I'm Sure They're Legal
A few months ago, Howard County decided that it's cable franchise needed a little competition when the county council approved Verizon to come in and install FIOS throughout the county. When the cable installation is complete, Verizon will go toe-to-toe with Comcast providing us with broadband, TV, and VoIP.
Today my neighborhood gets its cable pulled. At exactly 7 AM, twenty sturdy Hispanics arrived in my court and started digging. Twenty guys in hardhats and orange vests out there digging ditches so I can have my choice of cable provider. And it was real ditch-digging too, just like in the movies. Picks and shovels, spades and jackhammers, big piles of dirt. (And the Maryland Piedmont doesn't have that namby-pamby loam or sand stuff, we're talking good, hard Maryland clay and lots of rocks.) Around here at least, Hispanics seem to do the lion's share of all the backbreaking landscaping and earth moving tasks. Thank you guys.
It's 9 AM now and some workers are still at it. Two straight hours digging.
I'd be dead by now.
K-
I hate having to make decisions like that. But who knows, maybe they'll have price war.
Nothing will alert you to how out of shape you are like shoveling. When I was IN good shape, I couldn't do it for more than 30 minutes or so without having to stop. My work campus is crawling with male and female Hispanic laborers doing all sorts of tasks as part of our continuing rebuilding effort. They are all industrious and a treat to be around.
I know a couple of people who have already switched from Comcast to Verizon. There will definitely be a price war.
K-