NOT PLAYING WELL WITH OTHERS

While outside with my pipe earlier I saw some one parking her vehicle underneath a sign that told them explicitly to abstain from parking there, this morning till nine o'clock, for street cleaning. That car was still there upon my return. Must be an out-of-towner, unused to the idea that public thoroughfares need th occasional sweep. Either somebody from the hinterlands or a New Yorker.

This disturbs me. I went out to check moments ago.
Yep. The vehicle is still there.
Anarchist.


Have I ever mentioned that, being of substantially Dutch ancestry (despite over three and a half centuries of my folks being in the States), and having lived in the Netherlands from two till eighteen, and therefore naturally given to pettiness and red tape conditioning (we Dutch pretty much invented red tape and all the little petty-fogging rules and regulations that make living in civilized society an exercise in neuroses and minutiae), as well as having been a pencil-pusher most of my adult life, AND being on the spectrum, such cavalier disregard for the norms and values of people who can write citations while tootling around in their little parking control golf carts around at an ungodly hour does not sit well with me?

We have parking rules in this city.

WHICH MUST BE OBEYED!

What is this world coming to? Darn heathens!

Before you know it, that driver will casually toss a paper on the sidewalk, remove tags from matresses, NOT exercise caution when the contents are hot, and start eating fresh pizza before removing it from the box first. Society will collapse because of behaviour like that.
And soon all of them will be fending off armed Mad Max style dystopians and people knocking at their doors demanding to talk about Jesus.


No wonder this generation is on our collective lawns.



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