Todd Lappin's 15 minutes of madness

By at 3:51 pm Monday, Jul 3

My friend Todd Lappin experienced about a week's worth of excitement in 15 minutes.
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I arrived home from work at 4:00 to depart for our annual houseboat vacation weekend. Planned departure time: 4:30.

Here's what then happened between 4:00 and 4:15:

  • A concrete truck pulled up to our house, to pour concrete for our new back yard retaining wall
  • A hose was run through our living room, to pump the concrete from the front of the house to the back yard
  • I walked into my bedroom to find Tim, the contractor who rebuilt our house, fixing something on our bedroom deck. "Hello Todd!" he said
  • My wife was in her bathroom, taking a shower
  • My friends Ethan and Brad pulled up with a carload of food from Costco. They unloaded this in the garage, in preparation for our houseboat weekend
  • While concrete burbled through the living room, our friends Alex and Kris arrived in a taxi from the airport, having just flown in from Washington DC for the weekend. They were very excited to see us
  • Fred arrived with his pickup truck, to remove the food from the garage and haul it up to the lake
I think it was the most bizarre 15 minutes of my life. Fortunately, we've trained for just this sort of thing, so I was able to take it in stride.
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