Citizen patience wearing thin

Sympathetic to the task at hand, we poked fun last week, with tongue in cheek, at the street project currently underway in our town.
We told of the project’s many twists and turns, and how the Hillsboro populace was handling the inconvenience of taking different routes to reach Point B from Point A.
We feared for small cars, kids and pets, expecting they might be lost in the deeper holes in the middle of our streets.
We attempted to put a kind face on the Hillsboro drivers.
“Those work crews are just doing their job,” we told ourselves. What’s a little inconvenience now, it will all be worth it in the end. Soon our streets will be paved and smooth and pretty.
Pretty?
These damn streets better be paved and smooth pretty soon, or there’s going to be hell to pay, we suspect.
The natives are getting restless.
We’re losing our patience.
Small town nice worked for awhile, but this business of streets turned upside down for weeks on end, seeing China at the bottom of some of the holes in the middle of the streets and now the two reports of two lost Volkswagens is taking a good thing too far.
Thompson’s football fans came to the game here Tuesday night. Two carloads failed to return to home in Thompson. The vehicles were feared lost on Caledonia Ave., near where Qwest went underground last week to find and repair broken phone lines.
Frankly, we’re at our wit’s end.
Hurry, please.
We say this with much trepidation.
You don’t want to see Hillsboro mad.
It isn’t pretty.