It might not be normal to get excited about garbage collection day, but now that the city of Portland has gone to an every two week schedule for any dwelling with 4 or less apartments, I do get excited. The city people say that the people they have surveyed love it, and I can guarantee you for every survey sent in that expressed love for this crap there were ten that weren't sent in because people know that city hall is just like a nasty honey badger, and doesn't give a shit.
Use the slop buckets, they say, that are picked up every week. That would be gross under normal circumstances, but the fact that we are having so much sewer construction, which drives rats to the surface, well, you can imagine. The rats have so much to eat, easy access, and those nasty things seem to be the size of raccoons. There was a time not that long ago when I couldn't remember how long it had been since I had seen a rat. The last one I saw was Sunday night. Two nights ago. And three days before that. And the Saturday before that. Do other places have it worse? Yes.
But it isn't lost on me that the rats in city hall are nourishing the ones that come up from the sewer.
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