This is what our piledriver looks like, but if you want to see/hear an action shot, Miss Heather, at New York Shitty, took video (just see if you can last through all three minutes, then imagine sitting through it for eight hours while trying to work). Though even viewing it is highly annoying, you would need IMAX to exactly capture what it feels like to wake up to this thing going off about ten feet from your head. At 7:20 AM.
When you wake up needing a xanax you can be pretty sure that you're not going to have a good day—or, in this case, week.
Poor Judy! I feel for you! I remember when they were pile driving a block away from my building and we would all get shaken out of bed at 7 a.m. on the dot. But at least I had the respite of leaving for work by 8 or so. I can't imagine how you can possibly work from home with this going on. It's inhuman!
Posted by: Scarlett | June 18, 2008 at 04:56 PM
I live across the street from this motherfucker. And the real treat is that there's ANOTHER one next door. Last year, it was the one by the catholic church. The mood it puts you in to wake up to this noise + shaking is extra evil. It's like waking up to your smoke alarm and having to get up on a chair to turn the thing off: there's just no lying to yourself that you can roll over and go back to sleep, the kind of wee negotiation you need to round the edges off your day.
Posted by: J | June 18, 2008 at 08:43 PM
Hey, Neighbor J! Welcome. Someone suggested earplugs the other day, but, as you know, that's futile when you're being tossed around.
Thanks, Scarlett. Hopefully only another day or two of piledriving.
Posted by: Judy McStillCrabby | June 18, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Your in Luck, the Pile Driver was driven today down the street to the other lot on N 11th. 7am wake up call shall continue. If it weren't for the screaming workmen topping off the noise factor, I'd still have hair! All three empty lots within the N11th realm have woken up from the dead. Let's see about the oil now.
Posted by: CB | June 19, 2008 at 05:31 PM