clear path ahead
it finally worked! even though i do my best to try to screw "the man", he doesn't always notice and sometimes he's even nice to me.
nearly everyday for the past 4.5 years, i have walked past a certain house on my way to school. and every single time it snows these people do not shovel their sidewalk. i never really mind trudging through it for a few days, but then when it gets icy and stays that way for weeks or months, i start to get a little pissed. so this year, after i almost fell flat on my butt, i finally decided to try to do something about it. that's right...i called "the man".
i checked into the city of evanston ordinances and found that every property owner is responsible for shoveling the sidewalk adjacent to their property after a 2" snowfall. so after being bumped around to several different representatives of "the man", i finally spoke to the right person. i told them that i had fallen a few times (white lie, but almost true) and that i didn't care if those people were old and decrepit, i happened to know that their house was on the market for $2 million and they could afford to pay someone to shovel for them. "the man" told me that he would send the city inspector out to check it out. i figured it was just "the man" blowing me off, because most of the time that's what "the man" does.
anyhow, as i walked to work today, after a 4" snowfall on friday, their walk was shoveled! after 4.5 years and a million snowfalls, they finally did it.
thank you, "the man".
ps. don't think this means that i won't keep trying to screw you.