Tuesday, July 28, 2009
C-Dub Irony.
C.W. Nevius' column today:
"Well, its trash day in my neighborhood, Bernal Heights," David Brame wrote... "Beginning last night, a parade of shopping carts began their march up and down the street, picking through the blue (recycling) bins."
Among the vexing annoyances in the city, recycling rustlers are one of the worst.
But, but, but, how do you know Chuck, I thought we established you lived in Walnut Creek?
But, [DoE waste coordinator Kevin] Drew admits, with the economy foundering, he doesn't have an easy answer [to the recycling thief problem]. Brame says he's come up with one. He's planning to move to Marin.
So today it's admirable to leave the city? Honestly, I don't get why the Chron prints columns which tells the people of SF that their city is so awful they should move out. That's Chuck opinion, and he has a right to it, and he did move away, but why would San Francisco Chronicle readers want to be given righteous lectures on how their city sucks? They would buy their city paper to be slapped in the face? Strange business model...
Chuck ends with another item:
The mail will arrive at the same time at houses in Noe Valley and the Castro today. But there will be a definite decline in good cheer. Mailman [K.T.], who walked his route for 31 years, died last week at 72.
"He passed away getting ready for work," said Elizabeth Downing, his supervisor. "He was wearing his uniform."
It's a sad story. What's even sadder is that a senior citizen is carrying heavy mail up steep hills. Couldn't he afford to retire? If anything, when I read stories about poor people ruffling into garbage to recover a 5c beer can, or septuagenarians working themselves to death, I don't think about how inconvenient they are, or how much good cheer they display in their fortitude. I'd hope someone would stand for those people. And so be it if some guy moves to Marin.
"Well, its trash day in my neighborhood, Bernal Heights," David Brame wrote... "Beginning last night, a parade of shopping carts began their march up and down the street, picking through the blue (recycling) bins."
Among the vexing annoyances in the city, recycling rustlers are one of the worst.
But, but, but, how do you know Chuck, I thought we established you lived in Walnut Creek?
But, [DoE waste coordinator Kevin] Drew admits, with the economy foundering, he doesn't have an easy answer [to the recycling thief problem]. Brame says he's come up with one. He's planning to move to Marin.
So today it's admirable to leave the city? Honestly, I don't get why the Chron prints columns which tells the people of SF that their city is so awful they should move out. That's Chuck opinion, and he has a right to it, and he did move away, but why would San Francisco Chronicle readers want to be given righteous lectures on how their city sucks? They would buy their city paper to be slapped in the face? Strange business model...
Chuck ends with another item:
The mail will arrive at the same time at houses in Noe Valley and the Castro today. But there will be a definite decline in good cheer. Mailman [K.T.], who walked his route for 31 years, died last week at 72.
"He passed away getting ready for work," said Elizabeth Downing, his supervisor. "He was wearing his uniform."
It's a sad story. What's even sadder is that a senior citizen is carrying heavy mail up steep hills. Couldn't he afford to retire? If anything, when I read stories about poor people ruffling into garbage to recover a 5c beer can, or septuagenarians working themselves to death, I don't think about how inconvenient they are, or how much good cheer they display in their fortitude. I'd hope someone would stand for those people. And so be it if some guy moves to Marin.
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