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Nov. 17th, 2003 02:19 pmThe landscaping crew outside is vacuuming/shredding the leaves that they spent most of last week blowing around. It's making a god-awful amount of both noise and dust, past my third-floor office window.
So much energy and physical labor is devoted to trying to avoid simple physical labor like raking leaves. In Poland a couple years ago, I watched a grounds crew raking grass clippings. That just Wouldn't Happen here. But I didn't know the Polish for "What, have you never heard of a bagging mower?", so I just watched, slightly agape. I should be more agape at the leaf vac truck, but I'm inured to it.
(Yes, I'm bored at work, why do you ask?)
So much energy and physical labor is devoted to trying to avoid simple physical labor like raking leaves. In Poland a couple years ago, I watched a grounds crew raking grass clippings. That just Wouldn't Happen here. But I didn't know the Polish for "What, have you never heard of a bagging mower?", so I just watched, slightly agape. I should be more agape at the leaf vac truck, but I'm inured to it.
(Yes, I'm bored at work, why do you ask?)