If you've always dreamed of owning a swanky Back Bay condo overlooking the Charles River Esplanade, you might get your big chance soon. All you'll need to do is stock up on the earplugs and fun-tak.

Remember how the Storrow Drive Tunnel was voted Boston's most likely to collapse and leak on you to death last semester? And how maybe the only way to fix it would be to close the road and bulldoze a big chunk of the Esplanade? Yeah, that sucked.

OK. Well, now the Department of Recreation and Conservation is floating a proposal to allow 24-hour construction along the Esplanade for 2 1/2 years. The rationale is that 24/7 jackhammering will get the tunnel fixed much faster, with fewer road closings and less priceless historical landmark razing.

As expected, lots of the good folks who live in the Back Bay have responded to this idea by shaking their tiny Burberry-gloved fists in the air and threatening to move their top tax bracket behinds to the burbs once and for all.

And to that we say, respectfully: Sorry about the construction noise, Muffy. We'll miss you, but will be happy to take that noisy ol' river view condo off your hands.... if the price is right.