November 26, 2003
Sunday in the Park with Alan
Sunday morning I took Alan to Kisheleff Park. We got there early, and nobody else was around yet. Except for the women with rakes, the men with shovels, and the bulldozer.
By pure coincidence, that was the morning the Parks Department chose for picking up the leaves. Which is done by means of a lot of people with rakes (all female), a smaller group of people with shovels (all male), a big truck, and a bulldozer.
So there was this bulldozer with a scoop attachment, vrooooming around the playground, swerving to avoid the swings and the seesaws, grunting to a halt by the slide. While the men with shovels scooped up the piles of leaves that the women with rakes had raked together, and dumped them into the bulldozer's scoop, so that it could dump them into the truck.
Alan went into a sort of trance state.
I mean, a bulldozer and a big truck, right there on the playground. It just doesn't get better than that.
Posted by douglas at November 26, 2003 09:18 AM