That sounds like some forward thinking city planning...not. Delaying trash pick up for a couple of days might make everyone’s life a little easier and maybe a tad less noisy. ;)
Your carnival would be like Mardi Gras? I’ve never been to one, but I’ve been in New Orleans the week after Mardi Gras. The amount of trash on the streets must have been knee deep. There were huge dumpsters on every other corner for the post-Mardi Gras cleanup. I can’t imagine what the streets must have looked like to require that many dumpsters. Are your streets similarly festooned with carnival refuse?
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I chuckled when I heard Dubya’s unfortunate phrasing. You can be sure if Clinton had ever said anything like that, the Republican noise machine would have been cranked into full gear analyzing it for its hidden intent.
Dubya is a simple man. And he has often stated that he says what he means and means what he says. I’m inclined to agree with him.
‘Course, I’m getting the feeling that a lot of Republicans are beginning to think he’s a little too simple and they’re even beginning to pile on. Poor Dubya.
Mardi Gras would probably be called a “class act” compared to this spring break on crack. Carnival used to be fun. Now it’s a bunch of underage teens running around wasted, being royal pains. These past years it has just been getting worse every time and I just wonder why the parents don’t seem to care. I guess they’re lying around somewhere, drunk themselves.
After carnival, the streets here look like they were hit by a hurricane. It’s only a smaller town, but I think everyone brings his/her own trash from the past week or so to throw around. ;)
I’m exaggerating a bit, but it’s bad. What I don’t like about it is that everyone has to be in a good mood from one minute to the next. And since some people have problems conforming, or keeping it up for several days, they just get drunk, hoping that will get or keep them in the mood. What it really does is make them obnoxious.
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Hey Volkher! It’s Fat Tuesday. All the merriment should be over after tonight, right? Bet it’ll be nice to have peace and quiet reign again. 
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This seems to be the place for me to leave anecdotes. Here’s another one:
Trash story #324
We’ve got carnival here on Monday, which means that anyone from age 14 to age 106 will be bumping off walls, weaving their way down the various streets around my place completely and utterly intoxicated. This will go on until next Wednesday (it started this Thursday).
The powers that be have decided, as they do every @@@@@@ year, that the trash will be picked up this Monday.
I’m not going to put mine out this year. Why, you ask? ;)
Well, the past 11 years the nightly rapid deployment forces of drunks, zombified party-goers and plain obnoxious idiots thought it was fun to empty the trash all over the streets, playing trash can roulette and altogether being, well, obnoxious.
I’m going to refrain and watch the mayhem on Monday.
Actually, now that I think of it, the trash-carnival aftermath is the best thing about the carnival here.