Wednesday, February 10, 2010

So ...

We got a nice little playground down on the bayfront. I mentioned it a few days ago. One of the features was a tetherball set-up. First day it was up, there was a young father swatting the ball around with his little girl. Pleasant thing to have here, nice to see them having a good time. People have always brought their kids down to the older swings a few hundred yards west on the bayfront park, but the new stuff was better. The ball was gone from the tetherball set within two days. There's a pretty sizeable set of people here that subscribe to the if-nobody's-watching-it's-up-for-grabs philosophy of property ownership. It's way beyond angering. Watching TV, I often get the feeling that the US has given itself over to acceptance – even admiration – of trashy people, and I suppose little towns aren't excepted. The rude, the coarse, the selfish are in the ascendancy in our world from top to bottom.

3 comments:

Pilot said...

I hate hearing that. Maybe they'll put up a new tether ball and rope and hire someone to lie in wait overnight to make an example of. As sad as that is, it isn't really a lot different than the "Caution - Alligator" signs that disappeared in short order after they went up, or that long gap where the palm trees are missing on the bayfront. You are right though......it pisses me off too, especially considering that it was stolen only because it was there, not to hock or use for recreation.

Truth Ferret said...

People don't care about others very much anymore. What a shame.

My brother-in-law and nephew have a room full of signs they have stolen from all over, including Stop Signs. Makes my blood boil, because they both feel that they are above the law. He's a pilot and I would never fly on his commercial flight, because if he feels laws don't apply to him, who knows what other laws/rules he ignores.

Going back to the Tether ball, I guess that's why I've seen the chain ones, not the safer rope models. Same thing for basketball hoops, huh? Sad statement of today's values of many people.

Edith Ann said...

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