{"id":8834,"date":"2006-04-09T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T22:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/04\/09\/mile-hi-jinx.html"},"modified":"2006-04-09T15:17:52","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T22:17:52","slug":"mile_hi_jinx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/09\/mile_hi_jinx.html","title":{"rendered":"Mile Hi-jinx"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last time I mentioned Mile Hi Services around here<\/a>, I got a flood of comments and a few e-mails on ths side. This “engulf & devour” service firm here in Denver<\/a> (which seems to go by about eleventy-dozen a\/k\/a’s, though you don’t always know that until you write the check) seems to engender a lot of … emotion.<\/p>\n

This being spring, it’s time for the annual Blooming of the Mile Hi Aeration signs, showing up everywhere — usually along city streets, in fields, etc.<\/p>\n

MILE HI
\nAERATION
\n303-XXX-XXXX<\/center><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I was amused when we were driving up University last weekend and saw that someone had come up with an indentically-fonted sticker that could be easily slapped onto the last line, so that it read:<\/p>\n

MILE HI
\nAERATION
\nS U C K S<\/center><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s also when endless “Mile Hi Aeration” fliers get taped to doors, door knobs, anywhere the paid-pennies-per-hour flunkies can be coerced into sticking them. Doyce arrived at the house here on Saturday holding one he’d peeled off the door.<\/p>\n

“Mile Hi Aeration,” he quoted the flier, “has the deepest plugs in town.”<\/p>\n

I made a comment I’ll not repeat in detail about how how many recepticles they have for “plugs” of one sort or another.<\/p>\n

I returned the favor to Doyce, by the way, by peeling a similar flier off of his door, too. Least I could do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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