A LITTLE DRIP

      That is how it starts. First, there is a little drip, so you try to shut the faucet tighter. Then the drip continues and you begin to worry about water wastage and annoying sounds. Plop! Plop!
     So you call a plumber who tries to open up the gizmo at the end of the water spout? chute? whatever it is called and uh-oh. Corroded shut. Ominous beginning here, but still optimistic, foolishly, as it turns out.
      Try to shut off the valves under the sink and no can do. Okay when open, but try to shut and we have ourselves a lovely little waterfall. We continue to rack up issues as the under the sink pipes are declared needy of replacing and oh, of course, we cannot replace the system we have in the sink because they do not make them anymore. Humpf!
     We choose a new setup, make an appointment for change and there ya'go! From a little drip, we now end with an $800 bill, start to finish - I hope that is the end of it, too! A little drip and a big dent in the wallet. Always seems to happen. Start with a litle change in the bathrom and before you know it, you are replacing a perfectly fine bathroom with an all new look at thousands in cost. Drip!
     Such is life too. Here in the Village we are supposed to be undergoing major changes. New bylaws. New cable and internet company. Seems simple, right? Just get a committee on it, put out some publicity and never mind the opposition that surfaces and the little drip of change becomes a tsunami of potential disasters. We are doing the bylaws, which did need revision, but doing them almost haphazardly even as an appearance of care is displayed. Even as we attend meetings, all disagreements other than petty wording is rejected or "we will get to that" responses. Why do we have to "get" there, when we are there - right here and now! Why do we ostensibly await important changes, such as the one resident owner /one vote system, until after the bylaws are accepted? It makes no sense. It is as if we took our little drip/huge disaster of the kitchen, fixed it, and then a week later decided to rip it all out, thus increasing our costs by almost $1000. It is the same thing here. Take care of all the drips first. It waited so long for new bylaws, it can wait a tad longer so we do not have to rip up all the bylaws affected by individual rsident voting AFTER we went through the process already. Makes no sense and makes a little drip into that proverbial flood!
   Then, of course, we have the AB isssue. First, we took the first or second largest company in the business and kicked them to the curb and then went with this little, unknown, and complained about service company instead. They kept trying to change things, like internet or wi-fi fees, among other things, wreaked havoc on our Village grounds as their "advanced" horizontal boring bored into anything it passed, pipes for plumbing, for irrigation, electric issues, just name it and there it was. We already had a Comcast system in, a Universal system available, so why we went with another system - address that care of David Israel and minions. 
     In meeting with people and simply talking, we have heard stories about AB not working properly, being slow, or the picture going off and on and off and on and well, there goes our movie! We have issues with paper bills and payments. We have promises of $10 off which are not disclosed nor given unless one chases after it. We have ongoing repair issues and I, for one, am very leery about its installation in my condo, and will not be very happy to find that for a period of three days, a week, whatever, my internet is out, my phones are slow as molasses to upload, my computer has been left out of the connections and all the issues I am hearing.Well, before they leave my home I will insist on checking everything and not just flicking a button. I want to see continuity in the TV picture, quick wi-fi and internet connections. I do not want to face a little drip gone cyclonic.
     The little drip theory has worked its way into the country as well. First, we allowed a demented lying pervert with major financial issues and tremendous personality and character traits issues to run for President and now the little drip, first making a small and annoying sound, has now become that tsunami, dripping in gushes and waterfall amounts, eroding the basis of the country, washing away all its protections, ruining its beauty, both natural and that of the people, and allowed a putrid river of hate to flow throughout. The little drip gone bad, gone rogue.
     What we do with the little drip in our own homes is one thing. What needs to be done both here and in the country at large with the little drip - well, it is not a little drip anymore and if we are to avoid going under until we cannot surface any longer, well, we need to do more than emulate the little Dutch boy with his finger in the hole in the dike. We are way past that point and possibility. It will take much hard work, many sandbags, fixing many figurative dams and levees. We need to get to work.
    DRIP DRIP DRIP DRIP  DRIP
       MAN OVERBOARD! COUNTRY OVERBOARD! Buckets! Vacuums! Mops! 
Oh, help!!!!!