Was having a bacon roll and coffee on a bench in town today, watching the Polish equivalent of Laurel and Hardy laying paving slabs. This firm has been digging up and re-laying the pavements and part of the road, caused chaos for over a year now.
These two Poles are angle-grinding slabs to fit into odd spaces, number 1 is wielding the angle grinder while #2 pours water from a jerry-can onto the slab. When they've cut it, they both light a fag. Man 2 then waits for the lights to change, carries the empty jerry cans about 50 yards to a (leaking!) temporary tap and takes 5 minutes to fill them up again. He waits for the lights again, takes them back to man 1 and puts them on the floor where man 1 is still standing around smoking his fag.
*Then*, man 1 waits for the lights to change, walks 50 yards to his truck which is parked right next to where the tap is, picks up a small bag of sand, waits for the lights, returns to the site and dumps the bag next to the jerry cans where man 2 is standing around smoking. Conversation, finish their fags, then sweep a bit of sand around, place the cut slab in place and start on the next one.
I don't know who the boss of this firm is, but he must be shagging someone on the Council