Back in 1981, right after President Ronald Reagan was shot and was recovering from surgery, Secretary of State Alexander Haig burst onto the national scene with a simple three-word statement "I'm in charge." Really? Did he really think the line of succession skipped straight to him? If Reagan had been incapacitated for any amount of time, then-Vice President Bush (King George the elder) would have been next in line. Anyone who has ever taken grade school civics (like, everybody) knows this...except maybe Al Haig at the time.
I am often times left scratching my head as to who is really in charge on my worksite. Sometimes I am told to call the contractor. Sometimes my contractor tells me to talk to the foreman. Everybody else on-site will usually point at someone else. Well, for the next six days I will call upon those infamous words of Al Haig - "I'm in charge."
On Monday, the foreman said he would be back today to do some demolition work inside the house, and then two hours later the contractor came by and said that they would be at another job today as we waited on the structural inspection. Since today is the one day this week I was going in the office, Cara breathed a sigh of relief...especially since we hadn't moved everything out like we needed to. Well, the call from Cara came about 8:30...they were ready to break through the walls. So I was home by 2:30 to make sure all the shortcuts they were taking and all the things they told Cara they were going to do, were going to actually be done correctly. She just simply makes a list and let's me take it from there.
I have a strange feeling everybody will be very pleased to see me go back to work next week. I don't think they enjoy me just barging in and checking in on the work they are doing to my house.
But the dust is beginning to fly in the house, in more ways than one, so I just have to keep reminding everyone of who is really in charge here.
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