One recent afternoon I took a taxi to visit a friend. The driver had to fork over his license to the guard in order to enter and was given a numbered card in return.
The driver waited while I was inside. Half an hour almost passed before we all left together. At the guardhouse the guard returned the license but it was not the right one. Turns out he had given it away to some other driver.
"What'd you do that for?", said the taxi driver.
"Well it's your fault. You stayed too long," was the actual reply from the guard. Unbelievable. This lazy guard, not paying attention to what he is doing, blames his mistake on the very man he has wronged!
How stupid do you have to be to mess this up? You take the ID, put it a number slot, give the driver a numbered card for the slot it's in, the driver returns and you exchange the cards. Pretty simple. Oh and don't forget to visibly check the license with the driver to see if the face matches.
And this is not even an upscale gated neighbourhood. It's more like midlevel. The houses are all conjoined and who knows but it probably smells like burning trash often enough to make you hack and choke.
So now this driver is without a license. I saw the back of the license he was mistakenly given as he was holding it and it was a Grab driver's ID. How many gated communities will the Grab driver be in and out of surrendering his ID before he realises it's not his? By then he will have forgotten where he lost his ID. This taxi driver's licence is gone and all because of some stupid, lazy guard who thinks he is doing a big important job protecting the gate.
Don't worry though. The poor guy got his license back the next day.
I live in a small what I would deem upper middle class subdivision. There are less than 100 stand alone houses of which most own at least one new auto like an MUX and such. The subdivision is kept clean, trash collection 2 or 3 times a week, one way in and one way out with 2 tall steel gates. Only problem is armed guard would put his feet up and go to sleep around midnight leaving the entrance gate open enough for people to just walk in.
ReplyDeleteIt's also another case of monkey see, monkey do. We bought this house and remodeled everything, wiring, plumbing, tiles, paint and replaced sinks and toilets and added a bedroom. Well we also extended our second story balcony out to the street, covered it, grilled it and installed lighting. Now since it was done two other houses within sight of ours have done the same thing.
Maybe your neighbours saw how nice your remodelling was and decided they didn't want to live in a dump anymore. In your neighbourhood are there 2-3 lots of unfinished building lots? Where they started building a foundation and even a frame for a house but mysteriously abandoned it and now its all covered in weeds and brush? And it's just sitting there for years now?
DeleteDavid, No empty lots per se. But there are about 5 or 6 house built that are empty. Telling wife that there is one we should buy as has nice yard, sunroom and such. The closest there is to a vacant lot is by the guard house but inside the sub. Seems the lot is not part of the sub even though within the walls and owner will not sell. One thing the sub noticed besides our remodeling is the cars. We are the only ones with a 2017 MUX, 2018 Chevy Colorado and a 2016 or 2015 Mobilio and only one with more than one car.
DeleteLooking to buy another house or two in this sub. But wife doing great since we own over 15 houses in upper class subs plus land on other islands.