I woke up the other day to hear a thumping noise near the ceiling, which meant some weird shit was happening around the front garden. It turned out two dudes claimed Con Ed sent them to caulk up our driveway around the cement squares over our new gas line to the house. They had no identification and we were not informed of this, but I let it go because they were caulking the driveway and I can't imagine some rogue dudes do this for no reason at all.

Still, this brings up a lot of questions. First, the gas line was installed over a year ago; why are you suddenly very concerned about it? Did you guys confer and say, "Wait, did we caulk in between the cement squares on that random house in upper Manhattan? We should double-check that." Second, and this is most important, thanks for asking permission to do this? Seriously, how did you guys think it was cool to just show up randomly at someone's house and do work on it? It's weird to wake up at seven in the morning to find construction workers acting as if everyone agreed on this course of action. What if it weren't caulking? What if you had to dig something up? Or lay cement in my garden? Where the hell does Con Ed think it has the right to just randomly do shit to people's homes?

Good job sending a subcontractor too so none of these questions will be answered.