No Rest For The Weary !!!

What the f****!?!?!?!

Sorry to start out like that but the "gardener" I wanted to yell it at "No Habla Englais"!!!! WHY???? He has a job in this country. ( Something I can't seem to acquire, partially due to the fact that I do not speak Spanish!!!) He had began mowing the lawn 2ft from my bedroom window!!! Obviously I have awakened, or more accurately, been awakened up by a lawn mowing, hedge trimmer wieilding, Spanish speaking, cretin who has no regard for anyone not on his 4am wake-up schedule!

I live in a mixed community and I'm more than certain that 7:45 AM is not an acceptable time to be jolted out of bed for many of my neighbors not just me. I know for a fact the boys next door are up late partying most nights. Yesterday morning I was awakened by a team of roofers babbling on loudly, in Spanish, setting up ladders against their unit wielding hammers and air pistols. The roofers began their assault at around 8:15 AM and kept it up until 10:30, at which time they just stopped what they were doing, climbed down off their ladders and disappeared for 2 hours. Leaving Ladders reaching up to the very top of my neighbors two story condo. Extension cords strewn everywhere, including my property. Power tools and tool bags on the lawn and their jackets on my window ledge. They just left! Not only was this rude but a serious safety violation. To top that off, I have other neighbors who have young children and at least one of them is pretty, well... "not quite right"( that's about as politically correct as I get). This child will come up to, walk into, pick up and play with, just about anything readily available to her. And no, her parents are seldom around to supervise her. What if she wandered over and fancied the nail gun?

Why do we homeowners and residents have to be forced to live on a foreign work crews schedule? I emphasize foreign not for a bigoted reason, although I find myself fighting the urge to hate daily, but because they do things differently there. These guys seem to start their day at 5AM. I guess they figure that by 8AM we should all be bight eyed and bushy tailed and if not....tough shit! Some people work nights, some are just 'night' people. We have the right to vary.

I was an on site assistant manager for a property management company at one point in my life and we had very strict rules ( not set by me by the way) against any power tools being used on the residential area of the property before 10 AM.

Do we as Americans really have to tolerate, or worse yet support a two hour Siesta in the middle of our work day? Why is it they have to quit for the day at 3pm.? Is that when the last buss leaves? It's time to adjust to our schedule as Americans if they want to be here.

I have no issue with immigration as a whole. Heck, I was born and raised in New York City. Every one's an immigrant there. But they're happy to assimilate to our way of life. I emphasize happy! That's why they came here. Because it's better than where they're from.

If I moved to Paris I'd learn to speak French fluently, eat more pastry, drink wine with every meal and have dinner at 10PM........... ( But I'd be nice to Americans ; ) )

The difference, as far as I can see, is that the Mexicans who "immigrate" to California are not looking to adopt our way of life, they're looking to take California back and revert it to their way of life. ( Yuck!!!) One employed illegal alien at a time!!!!