Walking past a construction site today, I saw a bunch of workmen straddling a newly poured concrete sidewalk. They were busy pressing boards into the sidewalk at right angles, and with a little metal blade, making shallow indentations in the concrete to create the illusion that it was made out of separate blocks. In chronological order, I was:
Surprised
Bothered
Bothered that I was surprised
1 comment en “Age of Innocence”
August 2nd, 2010 at 1:00 pm
They do that so that, as the sidewalk is ravaged by forces of nature, it will crack inside the recess between two “blocks”, rather than some less convenient place.
Or at least they should. Maybe these workers were both deceitful an incompetent.
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