Tongue in Cheek, and UBER driver nonsense

It's been the best day of their life for many Glen Oaks Ridge Condominium Residents  (Sarasota).

We are a 55+ community of people who fret and worry about this, that and the other (and nothing).

But today was a day for exuberant and widespread celebration at GOR.  A begone dull care day.

We had fireworks, a brass band, and five or six block parties. There were sights and sounds of jubilation on our streets.  The Champagne flowed.

A bit of background.  About a year ago the City of Sarasota took over the trash and recycling collection, having been unable to secure a reasonable contract with either of the two Commercial trash/recycling contractors which operate in this area.

As part of the City takeover residents were issued with two brand 
new bins, one for trash, one for recycling.

But for reasons beyond my ken, we the humble residents did not get our new bins until today  -  a year late.

That was call for a fete, a carnival, a public display of joy at GOR.

Here they are



aren't they beautiful?  So much so that I probably won't use mine. T'would be a shame to spoil them.




P.S.  The City has opted for single stream recycling. So paper, cardboard, plastics, glass etc all go into one bin.  The giant sorting machines do the work more efficiently than householders,  (Sadly)  in Sarasota and in most communities a lot of recyclables are never  recycled, but go to the land fill after being sorted.

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I used UBER today, for the first time in nearly a year.

As I got into the car, and before I put my seat belt on, my driver announced that he would not shake my hand on account of the corona virus.   Good Lord above, when did we become a nation of babies?  And why are Chinese restaurants being boycotted; and people of apparent south east Asian origin being harassed (ah that's a good and historic American tradition).

I had to point this out to him:



Globally, an estimated 290,000 to 650,000 people die from the flu each year, the World Health Organization says.


In the United States alone, an estimated 12,000 people have died from the illness so far this flu season, which started September 29, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

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