Mayor = Dad?
Is it just me, or has New York City been under one single administration since Dinkins left office in 93? Though it changed it’s tactics in late 2001, I think the overarching approach to the city was overwhelmingly similar, I’m speaking of course, of Mayor Dad.
At first, when we were much younger, he was fierce and protective. “My city must be kept safe!” he said. And he kept us safe from graffiti artists and turnstile jumpers, and vicious squeegeemen. He helped us avert our eyes from the horrors of Times Square, and shut down the evil bars that didn’t card and let people dance too much. And he was the perfect tightwad Dad, refusing to pay for all the frivalous things we asked him for. So we got older, and thought we didn’t need him any more, and then we got in trouble, a lot of trouble, and he was there to help us through it, but like the dad we knew and loved, he ended up becoming a little too overprotective. And then he made a bunch of crazy promises and promised to buy us more stuff in the future, but we could tell his philosophy had shifted from “What I say goes.” to “It’s for your own good.” He stopped letting us smoke in the house, even in the garage, and then refused to bring home all that fatty food we loved. But now he’s gone too far. He’s trying to put his foot down and shame us into giving up our bottles. Doesn’t he have a stadium to build somewhere?
But seriously, if less people bought snake oil bottled water, we’d at least have a few fewer container ships polluting their way across the Pacific every day, spending valuable resources just to keep us hydrated.