Comments on: Broken Branches http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/10/10/broken-branches/ 68.3 Square Miles of D.C. News and Opinion Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:05:00 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: scott http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/10/10/broken-branches/comment-page-1/#comment-40956 scott Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:14:43 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/10/10/broken-branches/#comment-40956 real talk. we've become such a damned whiny culture. the bottom line: the signs were there, people ignored them, work didn't get done. don't ignore the signs and then the work gets done. don't bring in all sorts of other variables and dire consequences (oh no! the branches are falling!). instead, learn to live by cause and effect. it's not rocket science. oh wait, well, it is, in a way. real talk. we've become such a damned whiny culture. the bottom line: the signs were there, people ignored them, work didn't get done. don't ignore the signs and then the work gets done. don't bring in all sorts of other variables and dire consequences (oh no! the branches are falling!). instead, learn to live by cause and effect. it's not rocket science. oh wait, well, it is, in a way.

]]> By: Jamie http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/2007/10/10/broken-branches/comment-page-1/#comment-40954 Jamie Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:57:30 +0000 http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/citydesk/index.php/2007/10/10/broken-branches/#comment-40954 It's hard to know who to blame here. Having endured "emergency no parking" signs so many times when no work was actually ever done, sometimes for days or weeks, can you blame people for yawning a bit when these things go up? At the same time, Mt. Pleasant has in recent years become the whiniest neighborhood in DC. Not sure why, maybe it's because people thought they were living in Potomac when they paid almost a megabuck for their row house. Anyway, it amuses me that (apparently) so many of these folks didn't feel the need to move their cars for the trimmers, that the workmen couldn't be bothered on that street. Serves them right. It's hard to know who to blame here. Having endured "emergency no parking" signs so many times when no work was actually ever done, sometimes for days or weeks, can you blame people for yawning a bit when these things go up?

At the same time, Mt. Pleasant has in recent years become the whiniest neighborhood in DC. Not sure why, maybe it's because people thought they were living in Potomac when they paid almost a megabuck for their row house. Anyway, it amuses me that (apparently) so many of these folks didn't feel the need to move their cars for the trimmers, that the workmen couldn't be bothered on that street. Serves them right.

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