Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Good line
Took a taxi to the store this morning because of snow. I used to be braver, but decided that I'm old enough AND solvent enough to tip the scales toward taxis in bad weather. (Needless to say, taxi means REAL TAXI, not Uber or Lyft. I'll never use those Share Value scams.)
Discussed the city's idiot failure to use
with the lady driver. We're both old enough to remember when the city used sand instead of the EPA-approved Zamboni "deicer", which actually polishes the ice to a diamond-hard skating surface.
Good line by the driver: "It's not like they have to go anywhere to find sand. The whole city is a sand pit."
Gave me a good and necessary laugh. Perfectly true. The soil is sand. You could dig up part of the yard and use it on the sidewalk instead of the EPA-approved non-salt slime granules. The city could reactivate Henry Kaiser's old sand quarry and have safer streets with less GAS-CONSUMING plowing and less SOUL-CONSUMING deaths.
But they won't. EPA wins every fucking time.
with the lady driver. We're both old enough to remember when the city used sand instead of the EPA-approved Zamboni "deicer", which actually polishes the ice to a diamond-hard skating surface.
Good line by the driver: "It's not like they have to go anywhere to find sand. The whole city is a sand pit."
Gave me a good and necessary laugh. Perfectly true. The soil is sand. You could dig up part of the yard and use it on the sidewalk instead of the EPA-approved non-salt slime granules. The city could reactivate Henry Kaiser's old sand quarry and have safer streets with less GAS-CONSUMING plowing and less SOUL-CONSUMING deaths.
But they won't. EPA wins every fucking time.
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