So I'm walking home from work one day and I take notice of this really stupid stretch of sidewalk I am ambulating on. There's nothing wrong with the concrete. For the most part, the ground around the sidewalk is dirt or spotty patches of light grass EXCEPT for the 14 inches of pristine, thick sod lining the walkway. I'm hoping the picture I took with my cell phone clearly illustrates this bonehead idea.
Honestly, who are we fooling? It looks like a really bad toupe for grass with body issues. I just want to bring a comb and try to brush the grass over a little to better hide the dirt "bald spot". That way the grass can feel better about itself. I know if I had a toupe that had coverage like this, I wouldn't feel too good. I'm just trying to help the environment after all. If we're going to kill the planet, at least let it look nice as we do it!
I would love to meet the person who thought it would be a good move. Now I've been to many cities in this country and have yet to see something as silly as the "grass toupe", so I am chalking this up to yet another jackass D.C. thing. I've got this mental imagery of a bunch of politicians discussing how they only have enough money to sod a small portion of the open space in D.C....and then some wise public official has the brainchild that rather than sod a small portion of the park space, they could just sod all the park space with a little bit of grass! WOW!
If you are a botanist or any other kind of "ist" that likes to work with trees or grass and this is some kind of cutting edge technology, please let me know and I will kindly retract my rant. But, living in D.C. for nearly a year now it's easy to see that chances are this wasn't the smartest thing people could have done.
Well that does it for my latest "D.C. is Lame Because..." post. Until the next time I find something retarded in this city (which shouldn't be too long), farewell!
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