[ SECRET POST #4318 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4318 ⌋

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Stupid rant incoming

[(Anonymous)]

Goddammit. I don’t have a life, so my idea of a fun Halloween is carving lots of pumpkins, dressing up in an ott costume, and handing out a shitton of candy.

I’ve got 14 pumpkins and easily spent $100+ on candy and was gonna wear a costume I last wore to SDCC. I was gonna change my porch light and clean the living room before work today, come home and hollow out pumpkins, curl my hair for my costume, fall over and sleep for a couple hours, and wake up tomorrow, carve jack o’lanterns all day until I dress up, and freak parents out and make kids’ days with a huge actual metal cauldron full to the brim with candy.

Instead the city decided the day before Halloween would be an awesome time to jackhammer every streetcorner sidewalk in a six block radius to install new curb cuts, which they last did less than a decade ago. And I just saw a new curb cut a block away and it’s identical to the old ones they’re replacing, down to the yellow bumpy stuff they added a decade ago for the blind and guide dogs. If they really want to make the neighborhood a no-go area, they may as well knock out the streetlights while they’re at it. Also, everyone that’s wheelchair bound is gonna be SOL for a bit unless they want to wheel into the street out a driveway somewhere.

The kids at the charter school across the way tend to live in places without many sidewalks or streetlights, so their parents bring them here to trick or treat. And now they’re gonna have to take them to an area the kids don’t know as well as the streets right by their school.

Instead of ripping up the same streets and sidewalks every other year, why doesn’t the city try installing streetlights and sidewalks in poorer areas so kids’ parents can let them trick or treat in their own neighborhoods? I’d miss the sheer volume of trick or treaters, but it would actually be useful, rather than yet another pointless demonstration of “your tax dollars at work.”

People who aren’t shrieking harpies who demand every cent of the tax money pried from their greedy fingers be spent within 100 feet of their houses won’t begrudge kids not getting run over on the way to school, I promise.

This is the definition of first-world problems but still: *sulks.*

Re: Stupid rant incoming

[tabaqui]

That's lame, and a waste.
I hope people still come! Sounds like you're doing it right.
*pat pat pat*

Re: Stupid rant incoming

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh my city did the exact same thing recently. Instead of fixing all of the potholes in the street that actually NEED filling in, they put in new curb cuts that are exactly the same as the old ones. And it makes absolutely no sense because I live in a suburban neighborhood, not on a major thoroughfare, so the only people who are walking around here are the people who live here. The curb cuts we already had were just fine.

But no, now we have brand spankin' new curb cuts that aren't any better than the old ones and we STILL have streets full of potholes.

Re: Stupid rant incoming

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you. Last year was the anniversary of a big historical event at my city and they decided to update and improve all the main streets around the area where the event took place. Except that area had already been recently updated and they scheduled things in such a way that, when the inevitable delays happened, meant that the whole place was barely accessible right in time for the anniversary and the largest influx of tourists. Nobody was amused.