Soylent Green is not far behind

The latest in the saga of aging parents and their questionable competence in maintaining their suburban household is thus.

A two day old installation of an energy efficient oil burner system failed.  The old oil pumped from the old oil tank clogged the oil burner nozzle causing it to misfire and clog the “efficient” boiler with black soot.  The fire department was called.  Being in the transition stage from friendly helpful concerned with people small town to big assholian city attitudes one fireman said ” Well he best have pulled a permit” and “We are shutting it down and you will need to find another place to stay”.  Yes this cretin is talking to a sevety-four year old woman and her eighty four year old husband.  Clearly a product of the six year “war on terra”.  Since when did the fire department become part of the code enforcement police.  Yes, I know in the big city this is completely accepted function but I was under the wholly mistaken impression that the fire department was there to help people, excuse me.  A simple why don’t you call XYZ oil burner service, I use them and they are very good.  But no, a visit by the fire department came with an apparent eviction notice.

Really I live only 5 minutes away yet I cannot protect my aging parents from the assholes of this world and this has to be the most damming indictment of government left or right federal state and local.