timeless nostalgic
at the same time be a bit
sad to see them go
What else might any one be talking about but the, Generations in the making, the new, sleeker receptacles will soon replace the iconic green mesh bins, trash cans in New York City.
According to the article, Behold: New York City’s Trash Can of the Future, by Dodai Stewart, “The wire litter baskets are iconic, but they are well past their useful life in New York City,” said Jessica Tisch, the city’s sanitation commissioner. “They are vestiges of a different time.”
There are 22,000 litter baskets on the streets of New York City and the plan is, over time, to replace all of them with what Ms. Tisch calls “this new, more modern litter basket of the future.”
And there are those who will miss the iconic green mesh bins.
“I will be a bit sad to see them go,” Micah Belamarich, 38, the co-founder and creative director of OnlyNY, wrote in an email. The company, an independent clothing brand offering New York City-inspired apparel, sells a tiny version of the green mesh litter basket that can be used as a pen holder. It is one of the company’s top-selling products.
Mr. Belamarich, who was born and raised in Morningside Heights, added that the mesh basket’s design “feels timeless and nostalgic at the same time.
You know what the man said?
Politicians, public buildings and prostitutes all gain respectability with age.
Timeless, nostalgic!
Guess you can include iconic green mesh bins.
Recently the maintenance AND office staff at my apartment complex walked off the job.
At the same time the trash compacter broke.
Well, not totally broke but you have to have lived here long enough to know that you can use this long pole by the compacter to reach out press the button and turn the thing on.
I train someone as often as I can but it is a losing battle and the trash is piling up.
It is kind of scary down here in South Carolina to approach a pile of trash in the dark as I guess it is anywhere.
Still the last time a raccoon jumped out at me, I was thinking ‘alligator’ and I said see you later without sticking around too long.
The trash is piling up and all the strategically placed green canisters that are set out for the convenience of dog owners are filled to overflowing.
Seems that some how dogs and dog stuff was handled without being gift wrapped back when I was a kid but I read recently that dog ownership (and the population) is at an all time high.
I also read recently that if meat-eaters were a nation, American pets would be the 5th largest country on earth, just behind Germany.
I believe it and I bet the Germans don’t bag up their German stuff and leave it outside.
Did I mention it is still in the 90’s down here?
Let’s go to the thesaurus.
Start with just plain on smelly.
I could also also say that the air down here is foul-smelling, evil-smelling, stinking, stinking to high heaven, reeking, fetid, malodorous, pungent, acrid, rank, putrid, noxious, off, gamy, high, musty, fusty, frowsty, fresh, stinky, reeky, niffing, niffy, pongy, whiffy, humming, funky, noisome, mephitic, olid, miasmic, miasmal.
I like frowsty the best.
When we go out for a walk later tonight I will work it into our conversation.
“It just seems so frowsty out here tonight. You know, the atmosphere is so stale, warm, and stuffy.“
That spell check is tossing out frowsty is frosting on the cake!
Timeless!
Nostalgic!
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