Herberth has had his share of both dog and people trouble on the job.
“One time I was taking a customer’s fence down and his neighbor got angry. He says he was going to send out his pit bull so it could eat me,” Herberth remembered. “I says, ‘Go ahead. I have a hammer.’ I love animals and would never hurt one, but I wanted to see what this guy would do. It turned out that he didn’t have a pit bull, just this little dog that was pretty cute. One other time, a little dog bit me on the knee, but it was cold and I was wearing thermal pants, so it didn’t break the skin.”
“Do good fences make good neighbors?” I asked.
“I don’t know,” says Herberth, who has been on the job for 13 years. “I have good neighbors. So do you. But some people don’t like their neighbors. One time I had to put a 4-foot-tall section of lattice on top of the fence we had installed so this guy’s neighbors couldn’t look over and see him.”
Herberth and David took down the two old sections of fencing, which were made of wood, and installed new ones, which are PVC. They worked hard and did a fantastic job.
“That looks much better,” I says.
“It’s a good fence,” Herberth noted. “I guess that makes you a good neighbor.”
Stamford Advocate columnist Jerry Zezima is the author of two books, “Leave It to Boomer” and “The Empty Nest Chronicles.” Visit his blog at www.jerryzezima.blogspot.com.
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