I moved into your quaint little town last june, and until now I have kept very quiet about the shortcomings of our town's services, feeling oddly like the guy who spent too much for a concert ticket and is compelled to say that the "show was great".
Well, let's face it. the show sucks. We paid for the Stones, and we are getting the rotary club polka band (apologies to the Montreal West Rotary Club polka band if a Montreal west Rotary Club polka band exists, god knows you must be a damned good polka band because I suspect that is where all the municipal tax dollars are going).
Let's summarize the key points:
-Snow and it's requisite removal, are a fact of life in Eastern Canada. There is no use in pretending snow doesn't exist. We are wise to the "let's wait for the snow to melt game". In early winter, the odds of winning this game are low. Nice try, but we all know the odds, so don't piss us off.
-The dude on the plow who pretends to clear snow is not fooling anyone, because everyone knows that this guy is running a snow shell game; moving snow from one mound to the other.
It is snow "removal", not snow "moval".
-Pedestrians are creatures mobile on foot. Sidewalks are important to that mobility. When you don't clear a sidewalk on a street for a month period, you are keeping pedestrians from their natural habitat, endangering the survival of their kind.
-I like landscaping, I really do. Trees and gardens are nice, and so are lawns. Thank you for sending your plow riding consultants over to reconfigure my front lawn. The two massive divots removed where my lawn meets the sidewalk really do add some character... I'm thinking of naming your masterpiece "revolution en terre", and it will be a commentary on how lawn fetish has run amok in western suburbs. The piece will display until such time as I have saved enough money to get my damn lawn fixed.
On a final note, did you dress the xmas tree in front of town hall after a town hall xmas party? Because that two meter gap in xmas light coverage has too much egg nog written all over it. I mean really, do you think that people coming up the hill from Ville St-Pierre deserve any fewer lights than those going down? Do they not celebrate Xmas in Ville St-Pierre? is the town that e- lightist?
Well, let's face it. the show sucks. We paid for the Stones, and we are getting the rotary club polka band (apologies to the Montreal West Rotary Club polka band if a Montreal west Rotary Club polka band exists, god knows you must be a damned good polka band because I suspect that is where all the municipal tax dollars are going).
Let's summarize the key points:
-Snow and it's requisite removal, are a fact of life in Eastern Canada. There is no use in pretending snow doesn't exist. We are wise to the "let's wait for the snow to melt game". In early winter, the odds of winning this game are low. Nice try, but we all know the odds, so don't piss us off.
-The dude on the plow who pretends to clear snow is not fooling anyone, because everyone knows that this guy is running a snow shell game; moving snow from one mound to the other.
It is snow "removal", not snow "moval".
-Pedestrians are creatures mobile on foot. Sidewalks are important to that mobility. When you don't clear a sidewalk on a street for a month period, you are keeping pedestrians from their natural habitat, endangering the survival of their kind.
-I like landscaping, I really do. Trees and gardens are nice, and so are lawns. Thank you for sending your plow riding consultants over to reconfigure my front lawn. The two massive divots removed where my lawn meets the sidewalk really do add some character... I'm thinking of naming your masterpiece "revolution en terre", and it will be a commentary on how lawn fetish has run amok in western suburbs. The piece will display until such time as I have saved enough money to get my damn lawn fixed.
On a final note, did you dress the xmas tree in front of town hall after a town hall xmas party? Because that two meter gap in xmas light coverage has too much egg nog written all over it. I mean really, do you think that people coming up the hill from Ville St-Pierre deserve any fewer lights than those going down? Do they not celebrate Xmas in Ville St-Pierre? is the town that e- lightist?
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e: Xmas lighting, you would not want to encourage the Ronald Drive folk either...
True enough...
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