For once I do agree. But on who deserves it, I may
differ.
Sigh! How crazy can
he get! He goes far into the future, of his own choice, and he wants to change
it just because it doesn’t conform with current ideals, ideals that are in fact
on the way out. He’s intruding into the future, enforcing our own concepts on
them, them who have had nearly a millennium to learn how to improve on our
world.
So he did go the
Mayor’s office tower on Monday, and he grumbled. And grumbled. And grumbled.
About traffic, about lane sizes, road tolls, pedestians, buses, bikes, trucks,
speed limits, intersections, parking, ticket machines, shading, only to mention
a few. Yet he was staying in an apartment practically above a National Bus,
Tram and Subway (NBTS) train station on a line going straight to the Mayor’s
office. And did I mention the complimentary BuzzRider provided by NBTS to
buyers of their apartments. He could’ve just caught the 2-minutely fast and
immaculate subway. I digress.
*
Don’t listen to
him. You’d think with all those years they would’ve built more roads, more
lanes, higher speed limits, overpasses, no traffic lights, more parking, you
get the gist. But instead I’m stuck behind a hippie cyclist who wants to use
the middle of the sole east-bound car lane. I thought they could’ve given
everyone cars by now. And I’m certainly not going down to that grimy subway and
mixing with the masses, thank you very much.
So I shelled out
the $1.20 for an hour and a half’s parking, and I headed into the city
government office. I looked at the marble flooring. Taxpayers money down the
drain. I took a lift and went to the Mayor’s office on the 67th
floor, the top of the building. But I endured and knocked on the door. Loudly.
*
Let’s just say they
had an incident. Hade presented his suburban vision for New Buzz, the mayor
defended the city and saw the flaws in Hade’s plane. Hade called the Mayor,
ummm, names, and long story short, he was forced out of the city and bought a
house just outside the city, in semi-rural surroundings. He loved it. I stayed
in the apartment
However, Hade did
not give up. He set up a website, attracted two international tourists to his
cause, and they pooled their financial resources (most of which was from the
tourists) to open a storefront in the outskirts of the city, because ‘the
buildings were more bearable’. They installed a plethora of security cameras,
since the buildings were only shorter because it was a bad part of the city, which
I heard was very reluctant to be amalgamated into city government. He’s crazy
but he deserves an E for effort.
