On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:56:05 -0400, "Nancy Young"
> wrote:

>Lou Decruss wrote:
>> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:19:39 -0400, "Nancy Young"
>> > wrote:
>
>>> I'll be darned, a new high, by 5pm I had 21 trick or treaters!
>>>
>>> I'm not worried about running out or anything but I've made
>>> a good sized dent in the supply.
>
>> My job takes me into residential areas. I was behind and had to work
>> Sunday. There were so many kids I decided to stop about 3:30. People
>> were dragging their lawn furniture to the driveway along with fire
>> pits and stuff to have parties. It was a weird day for me because 2
>> of the parties I needed go get house pictures without making contact.
>
>Yikes. Talk about a downer. I know you already feel badly about
>it even though it has to be done.

It's not exactly an uplifting job but it's a paycheck. A small one
but it's something. Saturday I did 18 inspections in 90 minutes.
That tells you how close they are to each other. We have an inspector
who has parts of Chicago proper and he can do 120 per day. Out in the
burbs the most I've been able to do is 45 in a day. I've seen more
weird shit in the last 4 months than I've seen in my whole life. I
had one house last week that was a foreclosure and was listed as no
contact. There was a neighbor out so I talked to him. The owner had
a heart attack and died in the house. The mailman figured out there
was something wrong and called the cops. The coroner said he was dead
10 days. The guy had several dogs and they had been eating him. I
found all the back doors open. The family spent 70 grand cleaning up
the place but it still smelled like death. I don't why they wasted
the money because the bank was taking it back. Maybe they thought
they could make the payments. I dunno.

I could go on with weird stories but I felt really creepy taking
pictures and having kids wondering what I was doing so I stopped.

I heard recently there's 19 million vacant homes. That doesn't
include the ones that will be there soon. The US is in much more of a
mess than what we hear on TV.

>> One I needed to interview. It wasn't fun and I actually felt pretty
>> scummy raining on their parade so I figured it could wait until
>> Monday. I thought not many kids went out anymore but I sure was
>> wrong. There was one group of about a dozen mentally challenged kids
>> with a chaperone. She was having a hard time getting then off the
>> street. Luckily it was out in the boonies somewhere west of where
>> jesus lost his shoes. I also saw a group of teenage girls dressed up
>> like sluts and they were all on cell phones. I found that a little
>> weird.
>
>Are you sure they were dressed up for Halloween? Heh.

<shrug> They had bags but maybe that's normal attire. I wish I was a
teenager again!

Lou