When I was a kid I heard about the crookedest street in the world and I thought it was so cool. I was really excited to see it, then I went there and I realized that they just made it crooked on purpose and I was so disappointed. It wasn't a cool street with an interesting history, it was just some self-indulgent landscaping project. A little part of me died that day.
When I was a kid my stupid bumfuck town decided to make a 9/11 tribute a year after to the one guy that died there who had a house in my town. Not even sure if he lived there in retrospect.
Anyways, the tribute was a "monument" they built was in the middle grassy bit of a 2-road Y-lane intersection, and consisted of a big flower garden with few benches & a plaque, with a 50ft(15m) flag pole in the middle with an ungainly large flag. There was no sidewalk or crossing access to it whatsoever. It also had three stadium-grade fuckyou spotlights to permanently illuminate the flag.
They even got George Bush himself to stop by while passing through & bless the dumb little thing. Like 6 months after that there was a drought & the stupidly large flag caught fire from the hundred thousand candela spotlights & the whole 9/11 monument burned down.
When I was a kid I heard about the crookedest street in the world and I thought it was so cool. I was really excited to see it, then I went there and I realized that they just made it crooked on purpose and I was so disappointed. It wasn't a cool street with an interesting history, it was just some self-indulgent landscaping project. A little part of me died that day.
Anyways fuck this lady.
Oh shit we doing storytime?
When I was a kid my stupid bumfuck town decided to make a 9/11 tribute a year after to the one guy that died there who had a house in my town. Not even sure if he lived there in retrospect.
Anyways, the tribute was a "monument" they built was in the middle grassy bit of a 2-road Y-lane intersection, and consisted of a big flower garden with few benches & a plaque, with a 50ft(15m) flag pole in the middle with an ungainly large flag. There was no sidewalk or crossing access to it whatsoever. It also had three stadium-grade fuckyou spotlights to permanently illuminate the flag.
They even got George Bush himself to stop by while passing through & bless the dumb little thing. Like 6 months after that there was a drought & the stupidly large flag caught fire from the hundred thousand candela spotlights & the whole 9/11 monument burned down.
That was my first memory of irony.
Beautiful, I can just imagine everyone acting really upset after it burnt down because nobody wanted to admit that they didn't give a shit.
Lol, it got a mention in the paper & they rebuilt it with a smaller flag & much more tasteful solar lamps. Nobody ever thought of it before, or since.
Last I saw the flowers were too much of a bother apparently.
Literally had the exact same experience.