Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Some anecdotal evidence on the state of the local economy.

Earlier today, I looked in the yellow pages for an electrical contractor. I just need maybe 2.5 to 3 hours of work at my new house. (Taking down two ceiling fans from my apartment, re-installing them in the new house [pre-wired], and pulling a new wire through the attic and out the front soffit to install a motion activated light so that I can see geting in and out of my van at night; and replacing two chrome-looking, builder-installed chrome wall lanterns with nicer looking brass ones.) I will not mention the name of the contractor, but I noted than one of the electricians had the same last name as my late paternal grandmother who was originally from Brunswick, so I called him out of curiosity. Well, it was about 1:00PM and I found him at his home. He had his partner, who handles the residential work, call me about 10 minutes later. After I told him what I needed, explaining rather apologetically that even though it was such a small job, I could no longer do it myself because of my disability. I then asked if he thought he could get to it later this week or early next week. To make a long story short, he and his "crew" will be at the front door of my apatment at 7:15 AM tomorrow morning. Think about it.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Must have called Rowell and Lucree. they reallly need the work right now. They are not builders or contrractors, only electrical contractors. Pretty goo too I think.

Anonymous said...

Jay, you didn't have to hire an electrical contractor for that. Most men could have done it with no problem, I am not a man but could have done it, and saved you all that money they will charge you. Something small and simple like that, just let us know. I would be will to "donate" my time to help, and there probably are alot of others on here that would do the same. Just food for thought.LOL