Who Lives On My Street, A Town Official, A Girlfriend? Job Well Done

Broken or damaged sidewalks make great art, but they also tell a story. One more week and September will be gone. Just few weeks ago there was a great deal of work done on the sidewalks just in time for back to school. Buses were checking their routs a day before the school. Contractors were finishing up sidewalk constructions.


On our street contractors worked effortlessly to replace two sidewalk sections, long stretches in fact. It was just few days before the Labour weekend that all the heavy work started. I thought that they will not be able to complete the work, but they did. A day before the school started the sidewalk concrete slabs were all dried and ready to step on.


I was very surprised that those pieces, at least two sections at once in two spots were replaced. We have been walking on them all summer long and I have not seen any cracking or difference in height. May be there was something – they were marked bright pink and replaced.

Unfortunately, the construction workers did not manage to cover telephone or cable lines completely. I am sure residents who have those new sidewalks in front of their houses already reported the issue. It may not be an issue now, but later for the sidewalk snowplow.

So we have a joke on our street. In the winter we laughed many times with our neighbors. Some think that the snowplow driver’s girlfriend lives on our street. It makes you think, may be it is true. The snowplow driver always does a wonderful job plowing, spreading sand and driving around at least three times to make sure its all clean.

What I want to know, who really lives on our street? Really.


The other day I was walking the streets in our subdivision. We have two, my street and adjacent street. The adjacent street is Rush Road. One thing I can tell you though that no town official lives on that street, or a relative or a girlfriend.


As I was walking I saw a sidewalk cracked right across. How can someone miss that? I don’t know. No pink marking on that slab.

As I was walking further there was another sidewalk slab raised, at least one inch. That cannot be good for the sidewalk snowplow at all. No pink marking on that slab either.


Forgotten, not important, no one to look after, no girlfriend, and no town official resident. Sidewalk remains cracked and no one seems to complain about the high step on one of the sidewalk slabs.

Kidding aside, town’s criteria for determining which sidewalk piece will be replaced is not clear at all, or there is none.