So this morning I get awakened at 6:45am by the sound of doors SLAMMING in the Appliance Repair Shop below me. From 6:45–8:15, when my my alarm was set to go off, I couldn't sleep. Every 5 minutes, a door would swing open and slam shut, jarring me just as i might have had a chance to reclaim some lost sleep.
When I woke, this is what I heard:
Worker 1: It's Thursday and I gotta pull the dishwasher and all this shit out.
Muffled noise.
Worker 1: In and out like every hour.
Worker 2: Cackle, Cackle, Cackle!
Worker 1: It ain't right. I'm down here, calling Oscar....
Can't make the rest out. Just here some generator noise.
The phone starts ringing, I think the Foreman is calling someone. Rings 4 times.
Foreman: Hey, what's up? Hey listen, you guys got 236, 630?
Can't understand the guy on the other end.
Foreman: 6A, yeah.
On the other end: Yeah.
Foreman: You guys got this one?
On the other end: Yeah.
Foreman: Ok. You gotta pick up paint?
On the other end: Yeah, we got it.
Foreman: Ok, my guy's on his way. Thanks.
Pause
Foreman: Jose, Jose, Buddy.
Worker 2: Cackle, Cackle, Cackle!
Foreman: Hey guys, he's out there waiting.
Worker 2: Cackle, Cackle, Cackle!
Someone is barking, literally barking.
Another Worker (singing, reggae style): A yah yah yah yah yah yah.
Foreman: Buddy! Jose!
Some back and forth that I can't understand.
Foreman: Hey Crieh! (Really not sure about this name, but hopefully will become clear in the future)
Some rumblings and generator noise.
Foreman: Alright, well just go around and see....I haven't seen him, I still gotta find out who shows up.
Woman Worker: Tile Guys
Worker 1: Carpet.
Foreman: Right, with the tile guys, they're a little bit of a complainers. I call the unit up and they like, "Oh my back. I can't get in there."
Worker 2: Cackle, Cackle, Cackle!
Someone says something.
Worker 2: Cackle, Cackle, Cackle!
Another sleepless morning in Stuy Town.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
November 2, 2010
Phone rings.
Stuy Town Appliance Repair Shop:
Hey Lara, how you doin' this morning?
Listen, I got a call for a surveying job at 276, 630.
Some back and forth that I can't understand
Stuy Town Appliance Repair Shop:
There's no carpenters that have it and I can't get a hold of the exterminators
Some more back and forth that I can't understand
On the other end:
Retransmit please, retransmit.
Stuy Town Appliance Repair Shop:
2565 Appliance Ring (not sure about the ring part)
A woman is speaking spanish in the background.
On the other end of the line:
You say you can't get a carpenter or an exterminator?
Stuy Town Appliance Repair Shop:
Yeah. The carpenters don't have it, the tile guys can't do it. So it's just us and the exterminator or what?
I can't make out what the guy on the other end is saying—something about the exterminator.
A door slams.
Not sure what any of this means, but this is what I heard on November 2, 2010, early in the morning.
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