Despite the weather I did what I
usually do on a weekend, and that was to spent a lot of time
outdoors. And you know what? I made an interesting discovery.
I found out you can see over 100
discarded beer bottles and cans lying around the streets while
spending an hour walking through Marquette!
Yes, I know I should’ve saved that
for a “Jim's Weird Fact of the Day”, but I just thought I’d
share it now. And I can’t say I’m surprised by the discovery;
after all, the part of the city where I live (especially on the 100
block of West Arch Street and the 100 block of West Ohio Street) has
its fair share of, shall we say, people of the partying age, I’ve
heard quite a few gatherings where, I’m innocently guessing, beer
was consumed. In fact, there’s one house, just around the corner
from where we live, where yesterday I saw almost two dozen cans just
tossed out on the front yard or into the street. And seeing as how
it’s also a house from where quite a racket emanated last night,
I’m gonna guess the two are somehow connected.
That brings to mind two things—the
first, which I don’t wanna admit, is that I may have started upon
the slippery slope toward cranky old man-dom. Pretty soon, I’ll be
standing at a window, staring and muttering under my breath, “Kids
these days and their loud noise. Someone should do something about
that”!
In other words, I’ll be like my dad.
(Sorry, Dad. I couldn’t resist!!)
The second is this—when I was in
college (back in the 1800’s) the people with whom I lived, when
they had a party, returned the empties, so they could buy more beer
to have another party. They just didn’t toss the empties out in
the street, to let anyone walk away with the fruits of their
drinking. I mean, shouldn’t you get more out of a party than a
hangover and an ongoing relationship with the police? Sure, it’s
only a couple of dozen cans, but that’s still almost two and a half
bucks. You can buy part of a pizza or three pages of a textbook with
that.
Kids these days, I tell ya.
8-)
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