I was taking my usual lunchtime walk around Bushnell Park today when I witnessed a most perplexing scene. It was a bit after 12 noon and the sun was streaming down. There were all sorts of people doing all sorts of things: walking, eating lunch, napping on the grass. There were three schoolbus-loads of children on a lunch break from a field trip to the Capitol, running and playing tag and baseball. Really just a picture-perfect scene.
Then I heard it, that tell-tale whirring and grinding: lawnmowers. I watched sunbathers hastily gather their towels and bags and make a run for it. Let me sum that up for you: Lawnmowers chasing people off the lawn. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, I came upon another landscaper circling the perimiter of the swings, wheedwhaching dirt.
Was it strictly necessary to do these jobs at prime lunchtime in park in the middle of downtown? Couldn’t it have waited an hour or so, when the park would resort to its usual deserted state? Are you just that against people having fun? I mean, I imagine you have a pretty thankless job, but don’t take that out on the rest of us! We all have jobs too, and sometimes we just want a break from the cube walls.
Sincerely,
A downtown dweller.