So we're in recession, it's not the first time - but if we play our cards right - it might be our last.
But in order to 'play our cards right' - we have to be a little more vigilant about what messages we are sending future generations - especially when they are children.
The other day I was at the local hospital getting my annual check-up, in the waiting room was a children's playmat not too disimilar to the one pictured here, the main difference with the one I saw at the hospitale is that this particular 'road-map playmat' had about 15 blocks with all sorts of businesses and services; a hairdresser, a drive-in movie theatre, a fire station, a hospital (not the one I was waiting in, however how weird would it have been if it were the same one? It would be like a dream within a dream!) a fast food place, a church, a police station and three carwashes.....hold up, wait a minute...THREE carwashes??? What the hell does a town that size need with three carwashes? Seriously, how fucking clean does this community's automobiles need to be?
I don't know about you, but I've never used a carwash, not because of any particular objection to them, but just beacuse I have always washed my own car, that's what my father did, and his father before him - so I'm going to imagine that it's fair to say that most people 'manually' wash their cars - which brings me back to my point; this town cannot sustain three carwashes, one carwash would struggle, three is just asking for trouble.
The other problem with this children's playmat was that on the entire 15 blocks there were no more than NINE parking spaces, where the hell is everyone else supposed to park? Is it like musical chairs where everyone just keeps driving around - guzzling petrol that they can barely afford until someone reverses out? I guess maybe that explains the three carwashes; something to do while you're waiting for a carpark to become available.
Good on the makers of these playmats for giving our children something to do - (I would've loved one of those for my matchbox cars back in the 80's), I just hope the children playing on them aren't our next town-planners or our economy might just come undone again.
But in order to 'play our cards right' - we have to be a little more vigilant about what messages we are sending future generations - especially when they are children.
The other day I was at the local hospital getting my annual check-up, in the waiting room was a children's playmat not too disimilar to the one pictured here, the main difference with the one I saw at the hospitale is that this particular 'road-map playmat' had about 15 blocks with all sorts of businesses and services; a hairdresser, a drive-in movie theatre, a fire station, a hospital (not the one I was waiting in, however how weird would it have been if it were the same one? It would be like a dream within a dream!) a fast food place, a church, a police station and three carwashes.....hold up, wait a minute...THREE carwashes??? What the hell does a town that size need with three carwashes? Seriously, how fucking clean does this community's automobiles need to be?
I don't know about you, but I've never used a carwash, not because of any particular objection to them, but just beacuse I have always washed my own car, that's what my father did, and his father before him - so I'm going to imagine that it's fair to say that most people 'manually' wash their cars - which brings me back to my point; this town cannot sustain three carwashes, one carwash would struggle, three is just asking for trouble.
The other problem with this children's playmat was that on the entire 15 blocks there were no more than NINE parking spaces, where the hell is everyone else supposed to park? Is it like musical chairs where everyone just keeps driving around - guzzling petrol that they can barely afford until someone reverses out? I guess maybe that explains the three carwashes; something to do while you're waiting for a carpark to become available.
Good on the makers of these playmats for giving our children something to do - (I would've loved one of those for my matchbox cars back in the 80's), I just hope the children playing on them aren't our next town-planners or our economy might just come undone again.
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