And All the Children Are Above Average

I was awed yesterday by the quality of work done by the guys who installed the septic system. They were fast. They were polite. They were hard-working. They explained everything that needed explaining. When they had to dig a trench up to the house for the electric wires, the guy set aside the tulip bulbs that were disturbed rather than just destroying them or discarding them. They had to put in dirt to make a "bridge" to cross the ditch, and at the end of the day they undid it and seeded it. They carefully smoothed all the dirt -- even the dirt dug up last fall for the perk tests -- and seeded it and threw out straw for mulch. This is SO awesome compared to the septic system we had done last fall at the old house.

Now, at the time, I didn't have any complaints about the service at the old house when the septic was installed. What they did was good enough. But the Lietzau company is outstanding in comparison.

It made me think of schools. Everybody thinks their local public school is doing a fine job. Sure, there are bad schools out there. But ours is just dandy. They're all above average, right? But that's what I thought about companies who do septic systems. The one from last fall was just dandy. Until I saw Mr Lietzau's company in comparison. I think it's probably like that with doctors and mechanics and nursing homes and hair stylists and all sort of other things too, not just schools.