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[ # ] Don’t buy a corner house
March 5th, 2006 under Daily life, Los Angeles

We thought a corner house was good. We were wrong. Our fence gets tagged, our “strip” between the sidewalk and the street is a dumping ground for sofas. Our big Oleander bush holds many treasures not our own. Today’s haul==an old director’s chair, a lamp shade, and a really old radio. Plus some random piece of electrical equipment.

Our neighbor came over to tell me that he saw the kids who tagged the fence (second time this week). I thanked him and sat down to fill out the second request for graffiti removal I’ve done in 96 hours. When I called about the sofa that someone dumped, the lady said, “you called in January.”

“This is a new one.”

We both sighed.

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[ # 170 ] Comment from scout [March 6, 2006, 11:57 am]

And to think of all the trouble we had disposing of our old sofa when we could have just put it in front of our house. Silly girls!

[ # 171 ] Comment from treecup [March 6, 2006, 12:50 pm]

Why not make installation art out of it? Take your regular ol’ garbage and tie up the bags to look like a human form and sit ‘em down on the sofa.

[ # 172 ] Comment from sporksforall [March 6, 2006, 6:42 pm]

nice idea sandra, but this one is upside down. and since i discovered more crawly things than i wanted picking up the radio and the bag of clothes someone had also left, I’m not flipping the sofa over. nope.

[ # 174 ] Comment from bryduck [March 7, 2006, 12:18 pm]

Ok, then, what about having the garbage-people lying about on the underside (now top) of the sofa as if they were using the couch as a floatation device? Or creating your very own biome using the crawly things as the bottom of a food chain. You could get some non-native bird or lizard to eat them, then some sort of cat to eat them, and so on. Think of the fun!

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