Reckless Abandon

Your Boulevardier only spent a bit of time on the Boulevard today, but he noticed two things which caused him a bit of dismay.

First was a bicycle frame leaning on a pole near the corner of Castro Valley Boulevard at Lake Chabot Road. Strangely, the frame lacked a back wheel and seat; the front wheel and handlebars seemed intact. If it was the leave-behinds of a crime, it seems like the thief made a complicated, and mechanically difficult, choice. Your Boulevardier only hopes that the remaining pieces of the bicycle don't find their way into the nearby creek.

Second, a massage table was seen on the sidewalk near the corner of Nunes Avenue. Your Boulevardier does not assume, the day after the first rain of the season, that a masseuse or masseur was offering her or his services al fresco. Instead, one would guess that one of the therapists in the nearby spa had grown tired of the table and simply set it outside, in hopes that it would disappear. As of mid-day today, it hadn't.

Whenever items are abandoned on our streets, whether by intention or inattention, it reflects poorly on all of us.

On a happier note, and speaking (as Your Boulevardier was earlier) about the first rain of the season: the gauge at Chez Boulevardier read 38/100 of an inch for our overnight storm. A perfectly respectable and welcome bit of precipitation and, it is hoped, a harbinger of a pleasantly wet winter. Now that the eaves around Chez Boulevardier are painted and the shrubbery is trimmed fom the rain gutters, we happily say: let the rains come.