Walk On By

I have started walking home from Tachana Mercazit in the afternoon. It is about a 35 minute walk which goes through Gan Sacher. Something very relaxing about it all - walking through a park, surrounded by grass, trees and butterflies as the day is coming to a close.

Lucky I have adopted this practice - city traffic was basically brought to a standstill yesterday as all the streets around Gan Sacher were shut down so a concert could take place.

I don't understand how the city can make a decision which adversely affects ten of thousands of people for a concert which maybe a 1000 attended. Have the concert but don't close down the streets. The streets struggle to adequately cope at the best of times but yesterday it was mayhem which was exacerbated by the cops trying to direct traffic. Everywhere you looked there was complete gridlock. It looked pretty ugly and the tempers of those behind the wheels was beyond boiling point. We are talking honking of horns at unprecedented levels.

The streets should only be closed in exceptional circumstances and this was no exceptional circumstance. Talk about the tail wagging the dog.

Speaking of which, yesterday I wrote how I had seen everything on the buses - well add one more to the list. I get on the bus yesterday afternoon to go home and I see that there is only one spare seat. It happens to be down the back. I get there only to find a dog occupying it. Conundrum time.

Do I make the dog get up, then where will the dog go? The decision was made for me when the guy sitting in the seat across from the dog and her owner gets up and sits next to her as she picks the dog up and puts it in her arms. Problem solved except I had to be sitting next to that guy. You know, the one who talks loudly on the phone the whole way home.

Be careful what you wish for.