At a local trampoline park filled with people of all ages, I left all our coats and shoes, including two pairs of UGGs, a pair of Michael Kors sneakers, and a leather jacket, unattended in complete certainty that nobody would take them. A young dad left his laptop and walked over to the basketball hoops from where the laptop isn’t visible. There are two unattended Stanley cups whose owners are certain they’ll be there when they come back.
It’s not abnormal or immoral to want to live like this.
We live “in town” in a neighborhood that’s pretty OK. But you still have to lock up your bikes in your own carport. And in the almost a year since we moved in, we have had a trash can stolen. Still better than our old neighborhood, where we had two bikes and a tricycle, a trash can, and a brand new lug wrench stolen.
Meanwhile, we drive just a few miles “out” of town to meet up with the kids’ friends at the park, and they have, more than once, forgotten toys at the park one week, and returned to the park the next week and found the toys still there.
Coincidentally, none of the city bus routes go out that direction.
It’d be nice to have that, for sure.
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The worst part is that I know several people who raised their kids in this town and who are pitching fits over the fact that Metrolink from St Louis doesn’t come here “because of racism.” It’s so selfish. They raised their families in peace and quiet but we shouldn’t be able to raise ours in the same environment? We are racist for simply wanting what they had?
Sigh… When I was in college (back during the Nixon administration) there were coat racks with shelves above them near the entrance of most buildings on campus. You could leave your coat, your books, your purse, your umbrella, or anything else you didn’t feel like lugging around and know that when you came back, they’d still be there. Those were the days.
Stanley Cups? Like the hockey trophies? What?
In Austin, I feel completely safe. I rarely even lock my car except when I’m on n east St John’s for takeaway, fentynol, or hookers. (Just kidding, I only go there for the hookers. Haaa!) But I would love to have a functional metro system so I could live like a European or New Yorker and get rid of my car altogether. (I have lived in London, Dc, and Bombay without a car and it was glorious!) We have a sad little single line from NW Austin to the convention center downtown, on the far edge of downtown where no one except tourists go, and tourists don’t even know we have a train. Every two years, expansion comes up for a vote and it loses 49.9 to 50.1, because Republicans and rich Democrats hate trains.
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Stanley cups are $65 drinking mugs that are all the rage among the 7-12 girl crowd.
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