Open Thread

“could we bring books too for the kids as gifts? unused books that is!”

I think books are an option, but I think a toy might be more fun, no? I liked books a lot as a kid, but I was a big nerd! : P

Hmm, I’ll talk that one over with Snaps.

From the Bedbug Files:

I was in Bushwick yesterday.
As I’m driving down a street beneath
the M train I see a mountain of garbage.
It’s the height of a garbage truck and
there are two garbage trucks parked
beside it.

The guys are busy on the phone talking
about this huge pile of trash which is
apparently the entire contents of an
apartment infested with bedbugs.
There are carpets, lamps, desks
chairs, papers strewn everywhere.
Some have dates from the 70’s.
All sorts of clothes on the street.

In red marker on two pieces of wood are
the following dreaded words:
“BED BUGS, BEWARE”

I overhear the conversation from the
sanitation workers and it seems to center
on a negotiation with the management about
taking the rest of the day off, once they
clean up the mess.
It’s about 10AM, and there are 4 men with
two garbage trucks.

They finish the negotiation and get to working
on the pile of trash for about an hour.
The mountain is reduced to a few stray scraps
of paper.

They spend the next 20 minutes checking each
other for bedbugs before boarding the trucks
and taking off for a nice lunch break.

Bed Bugs suck!

Wow, I’ve seen them in Mott St. places that aren’t really that upscale. (Sweet n tart I think)

Legion…I’m still battling the tards over there in the Brooklyn paper.