A watched pot never boils, but it does get paranoid...

Driving through LA on my way to San Diego. It's impossible to hold your breath from Getty Center to Newport Beach so I drive with the windows rolled up and the air conditioner running. The haze over the city looks evil and though we know about the detriment to peoples health, I have to wonder about what it does to their mood; maybe that's why all those crazy famous people are so crazy.

Anyway, as I drive in the carpool lane on the 405 I'm struck by the amount and variety of debris that finds its way to the center island. Mind, in places the carpool lane is only a foot or two from the center wall and the debris is actually in the lane. Garbage bags, full and empty, car parts, lots of tire debris, plants, paint buckets, trash, hoses, clothes, furniture, you name it it's there and over all of it a good thick coat of glittering broken glass.

I'm troubled by two things I see washed up against the dividing wall. Well, aside from the full garbage bags that could contain anything from a body to yard waste. I see alot of single shoes among the debris, how does that happen? Someone with their feet sticking out the window loses a shoe in the breeze? Someone unsuccessfully crossing the road? I'm not talking about one single solitary shoe along the whole length of the highway. I'm talking about lots of unpaired shoes all along the road. How do they get there?

The second disturbing thing I see is chunks of concrete. Big chunks, little chunks, some too heavy to pick up I think. Are their chunks of concrete breaking off the roadway? Falling from neighboring buildings? Being thrown by hooligans on the side of the road? Disturbing scenarios all.

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Adorable!

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