Cobalt Green
Nov. 15th, 2011 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyI am ambivalent about fireworks. On the one hand: Ooh, pretty. On the other: It's a lot of sitting around, watching one expensive firework and another and another and... .
But letting them all off at once? Genius. All fireworks displays should be like that. Short, but definitely giving you your money's worth.
There is something of a to-do in the local paper at the moment. A woman purchased a 30cm inflatable wading pool, took it home, then read on the box that she needed to talk to her local council about whether she needed to put a safety fence around it. So she spoke to our local council, and lo! She was told to put up a fence costing $2,000. (I don't know if the council specified the cost or she spoke to a fencing contractor.) So, outraged, she complained to the local paper.
I don't know. I am prevaricating. One: Building a permanent fence around a small, temporary pool does seem excessive. Two: I nearly drowned a couple of times as a kid (admittedly, in a much larger pool) and wouldn't wish that on anyone*. Three: She could have read the box before buying it, so she wouldn't be in this fix. Four: Won't someone think of the children?
Ultimately, I think I am coming down on the side of: If she didn't complain to the paper, who would know if she put up a fence of not? What do you think?
* It is true what they say about your life flashing before your eyes.
But letting them all off at once? Genius. All fireworks displays should be like that. Short, but definitely giving you your money's worth.
There is something of a to-do in the local paper at the moment. A woman purchased a 30cm inflatable wading pool, took it home, then read on the box that she needed to talk to her local council about whether she needed to put a safety fence around it. So she spoke to our local council, and lo! She was told to put up a fence costing $2,000. (I don't know if the council specified the cost or she spoke to a fencing contractor.) So, outraged, she complained to the local paper.
I don't know. I am prevaricating. One: Building a permanent fence around a small, temporary pool does seem excessive. Two: I nearly drowned a couple of times as a kid (admittedly, in a much larger pool) and wouldn't wish that on anyone*. Three: She could have read the box before buying it, so she wouldn't be in this fix. Four: Won't someone think of the children?
Ultimately, I think I am coming down on the side of: If she didn't complain to the paper, who would know if she put up a fence of not? What do you think?
* It is true what they say about your life flashing before your eyes.