Cost/benefit?
Dec. 5th, 2011 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeOur neighborhood is what they now call an “urban node,” with a small core of consumer businesses surrounded by houses, although I doubt the people who designed this part of town could foresee how cutting edge this idea would be considered 50 years later. It’s pretty nice to be able to walk to Safeway, the vet, and my insurance guy’s office, while still being in a fully residential neighborhood.
Living so close to a supermarket does have its downsides, though, and one of them is that sometimes people smash bottles on our street for fun. I don’t really get it – it’s hard to fathom people that lacking in empathy, by which I mean, lacking the imagination to remember that real people live here. I mean, smashing things can be fun, sure, but leaving broken glass behind for others to have to deal with for weeks? So today I spent some time sweeping up some of the clear glass near my house. The green glass (wine bottle?) down by the intersection with Safeway was much more extensive, but pushing the big broom that much was more tiring than I expected, so I just focused closer to home.
Living so close to a supermarket does have its downsides, though, and one of them is that sometimes people smash bottles on our street for fun. I don’t really get it – it’s hard to fathom people that lacking in empathy, by which I mean, lacking the imagination to remember that real people live here. I mean, smashing things can be fun, sure, but leaving broken glass behind for others to have to deal with for weeks? So today I spent some time sweeping up some of the clear glass near my house. The green glass (wine bottle?) down by the intersection with Safeway was much more extensive, but pushing the big broom that much was more tiring than I expected, so I just focused closer to home.