The Fine Line Between Road Construction and Mass Hysteria

Close one more road and I'm popping this SUV into 4-wheel drive and driving on them anyway. Hell, I'll start driving through my neighbors back yards. Getting from point A to point B is becoming increasingly difficult in my neighborhood. I deal with this detour everyday and will do so for the rest of the summer, because some "Powers That Be" decided we need a circle intersection instead of your basic plus sign kind. 50 feet away from that sign is more construction but they just work on it intermittently, when they feel like it, whenever they feel like stopping traffic altogether, whenever they think, "Hey, today would be a great day for a cluster f$&@." (erv, I'm not sending this post to mom and dad's email machine.)
Here's a thought - finish one road before you start another one. And how about calling before you dig, you know before you hit that gas line. I could see my house, but had to double back through the detour, through 3 different cities and around the back way into my development because some retard hit the gas line. I turned around and muttered to myself for about 2 miles before I realized I had a child (the good one) and a dog in that house that I could see from the hit gas line incident. I should have probably asked the nice officer that sent me packing if they were in any danger. Nah, I just call him and alarm him with useless information.
"Hello?"
"Are you still sleeping? It's 2:00 pm are you just getting up?"
"I was playing video games all night."
"Oh, no way. That's not how this summer is going to go."
"Mom......"
"I'm going to start leaving you a list of chores."
"Chores? What, are we living on a farm?"
"You are not going to sleep and play video games all summer."
Silence
"Did you fall back to sleep or has the house blown up?"
"Huh?"
"There's a gas leak up at the corner, make sure my dog doesn't blow up."
"I love you too mom."

Estimated Time of Resolution

It's a good thing I took the afternoon off yesterday, there was something freaky going on with the neighborhoods electricity. The power would go off for 3 seconds, then come back on. Which just so happens to be a little too long for my microwave to handle but not my coffee-maker. Every 15 minutes this happened for almost 3 hours. After the first 4 times, I stopped fixing the time on my microwave. The power company has some issues to work out, obviously.

Although it did start to become annoying, I was getting impatient and Boy #3 was getting grumpy, so I called the power company. House was on last night! Someone once told me when you get an automated voice system, you just act stupid and you will be re-directed to a real person/representative. Hey it worked! The real live person told me that they were aware of the problem and estimated the problem being resolved at 7:38 pm. Wow, I'd like to be able to put an estimated time of resolution on my problems.