Some People Never Learn
By BobbyDem
@bwjsdems (496)
New Zealand
May 17, 2016 7:40pm CST
I've been amused over the past couple of days to watch the devlopment next door. I live next to 2 shared driveways - one of which is being dug up to lay new drainage and utilities for a new house on the back section.
Our area has very sticky clay soil and when the driveway was dug up last week, it was a sticky, lumpy mess. On the weekend they compacted the clay down in preparation for the driveway to be relaid. One of the workmen got over ambitious and tried to drive up the clay only to have his van sink in all the way to the axle. My husband helped pull them out with his ute, some planks and lots of digging.
Yesterday and today they have been pouring gravel with big tip trucks and compacting it down ready for the top layer. This morning as we left to walk the dogs, one truck was towing the other out as it had got stuck in a soft patch of ground. The amused workmen informed us that the same thing happened yesterday.
When we got back there were some large steel plates laid across the softest part of the driveway, and the trucks were busy dumping their loads. Just now I looked out the kitchen window to see that another truck had strayed off the firm part and got stuck. They tried to dump the load to see if he could pull himself out without help.
No luck. So now he has to wait while they once again call for help and then they will have more work to move all the gravel sitting in the wrong place on the drive.
I wonder if it has been the same driver or if more than one has been caught out. I'm sure the people paying for all this work won't be amused - but the rest of the neighbourhood has been highly entertained.
Do you have fun watching your neighbours sometimes?
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
24 May 16
that is a lot of trucks in a small space - I have seen trucks get stuck in mud trying to cross wet ground that looked too oft to even walk on - nice that you were around to help them recover the equiptment
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@arthurchappell (44998)
• Preston, England
25 May 16
@bwjsdems sounds quite an arduous rescue mission
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@bwjsdems (496)
• New Zealand
26 May 16
@arthurchappell I don't know about arduous but definitely entertaining.
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@OldRoadsOnceTraveled (331)
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21 May 16
My neighbors are probably glad that I can only see one of them. The ones who probably don't know they live in a cow pasture probably don't know how lucky they are that there are trees between us.
Anyway, I'm glad for your sake that watching sinking dump trucks is more fun than watching a police raid after being woken up by flash-bangs at 6 a.m.
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@bwjsdems (496)
• New Zealand
22 May 16
@OldRoadsOnceTraveled Thankfully the only police stuff we see around here is the occasional kid racer on a saturday night or the police helicopter hovering over the area trying to pin point someone for the cars. Not often thankfully.
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@ricki_911 (21625)
• Toronto, Ontario
18 May 16
Sometimes it is pretty funny. i spent a good 15 minutes watching the neighbours try and hook his truck to a trailer
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@bwjsdems (496)
• New Zealand
18 May 16
@ricki_911 That can be really fun to watch. My kitchen is quite high so I can look out over the neighbouring block of flats.
@valmnz (17097)
• New Zealand
23 May 16
Not the neighbours but the roadworks at our corner. They should have been finished by now. And now the rain has washed away all last weeks work. The work was meant to be finished by the end of April. Now? I'm not counting on it being finished while this winter weather is around.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
7 Jun 16
Getting stuck over and over again! Sounds like the players on the TV game show "Takeshi's Castle" when they try to move across the muddy soil, step on the wrong path and get buried upto neck with mud. That was definitely entertaining 
There are several times when we were snickering in our rooms watching what our neighbours did. Once in an evening, a couple was maybe romancing on the road behind our apartment building, when suddenly a familiar voice shouted out, "Hey, get lost! I don't want to see these near here a second time!". It was the owner of the house on the other side of the road. The couple just scampered away like small children 
There are several times when we were snickering in our rooms watching what our neighbours did. Once in an evening, a couple was maybe romancing on the road behind our apartment building, when suddenly a familiar voice shouted out, "Hey, get lost! I don't want to see these near here a second time!". It was the owner of the house on the other side of the road. The couple just scampered away like small children 
@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
29 May 16
You really can't do much else but laugh at them, can you? I can just see the whole street being highly entertained by this.
