If you live in New York City or the surrounding metropolitan area you will have noticed that we are in the middle of the rainy season. It has rained as far back as I can remember, and probably farther than that. I imagine there will be a day when we sit our grandchildren on our knee and regale them with stories of "the dry days" when there was actually honest to goodness sunshine. This should be distinguished from the "dry days" when we all quit drinking, or the "dry days" when there were no chicks at the bar. (tee hee)
So despite being continually soaked, I have managed to look around and observe an alarming trend in my peers. Namely, people are wearing flip flops around in the rain. Now, I can see if it was raining at the beach and a horde of people were caught in their sandals, but this is the Bronx. Yes, beautiful Bronx NY where the streets are paved in shit. Literally, to walk a block in this place is to navigate a minefield of dog turds, mostly laid by pit bulls on chain leashes. The drivers ed manual will remind you that the most dangerous time to be driving in the rain is at the outset of the shower, as dirt and oil are lifted from the tarmac by the water creating especially slippery conditions. If we apply this logic to the Bronx sidewalk-dog turd situation described above, we can only conclude that the precipitation creates what is essentially "shit soup." You, my fellow human beings, choose to tread through this in next-to bare feet. Wearing flip flops means they will spray that disgusting water up the backs of your legs. How is it that you all haven't already died of dysentery?
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