My stimulus check gets painted away

FELDY: Thank you, U.S. gub'ment for the economic stimulus check. Thank you city of Rochester for taking it. The sidewalk in front of Casa de Feldy was painted a bright shade of pink today, so the good news is we'll have a new sidewalk paid for by the end of the summer.

In all honesty, that's fine with me. We're having the driveway re-paved and we were going to fix some of the sidewalk anyway. The only part that bugs me is the timing. Some people can't afford to fill their car with gas right now, yet the City is demanding sidewalks be fixed at the cost of hundreds of dollars for some people.

Tell me, Phersy, am I just being a crusty old bugger about this or is their some validity to my argument?

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PHERSY: Crusty old bugger.

I really thought about ending the post there, but ... I got the same treatment Feldy. The City came by and painted my sidewalks last summer. I was lazy, so I sent the form back telling them to go ahead and fix it. But they never did. So my sidewalk is still orange.

Anyway, I got a double hit ... my garbage disposal went out this week, too, so I had to have a plumber come put a new one in. Bye, bye stimulus check!

Oh well. I guess that's how things go. It's sort of like Seinfeld said ... everything seems to even itself out for me.