It Is what It Is
In 1969 I worked at a sewage treatment plant in Bensenville, Illinois, a summer job that helped to pay for college. Swept up filter flies, greased pumps, learned how to draw sludge, clear trickling filters, do stuff to make solid waste dry more quickly, and do stuff to make sure stuff went from one part of the process to the next part of the process. Water and stuff in the front door, went out the back door into a creek that went some where else and who knows, somebody might have had a sip of it.
2017 and forty eight years later I watched two five horse power pumps removed from a lift station that moved mostly water and stuff to the county sewer line in Miami, Florida. It was a big job and a big deal because we all shower and $%^t
Pumps move water, they can move stuff that dissolves more or less in water but some times they get jammed up with stuff you should not flush down toilets, stuff that doesn't dissolve, like baby wipes and other stuff that gets used to wipe our collective butts.
My nephew who is a lawyer said there would be very little reason for lawyers or judges if folks were better behaved. It happens.
Last night those pumps did not work as well as they might have. I don't really blame the pumps for going on strike and honestly I don't blame mothers for cleaning their little ones asses and throwing the residual in the toilet in stead of a plastic bag.
Amazingly, I watch folks people pick up crap their dogs have laid out for them, and I have also stepped on dog crap they missed. And so it goes...
2017 and forty eight years later I watched two five horse power pumps removed from a lift station that moved mostly water and stuff to the county sewer line in Miami, Florida. It was a big job and a big deal because we all shower and $%^t
Pumps move water, they can move stuff that dissolves more or less in water but some times they get jammed up with stuff you should not flush down toilets, stuff that doesn't dissolve, like baby wipes and other stuff that gets used to wipe our collective butts.
My nephew who is a lawyer said there would be very little reason for lawyers or judges if folks were better behaved. It happens.
Last night those pumps did not work as well as they might have. I don't really blame the pumps for going on strike and honestly I don't blame mothers for cleaning their little ones asses and throwing the residual in the toilet in stead of a plastic bag.
Amazingly, I watch folks people pick up crap their dogs have laid out for them, and I have also stepped on dog crap they missed. And so it goes...
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