Thought you'll like this one!! Tony ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/9/26
The new "Bollards" - a victim of social exclusion?<http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/CanalScapeBCN/message/357;_ylc=X3oDMTJxdGNmMjNsBF9TAzk3NDkwNTA0BGdycElkAzE3NzM1MjQ2BGdycHNwSWQDMTY5MDM4NjY4NARtc2dJZAMzNTcEc2VjA2Rtc2cEc2xrA3Ztc2cEc3RpbWUDMTIyMjM5MTc5OQ-->Posted by: "micheal_wittman"[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> micheal_wittman <http://profiles.yahoo.com/micheal_wittman>Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:33 pm Think of it, you stuck in the ground naked with two friends, you'll never be able to meet them and worse you will stand there all of your life - unloved and of no use. You started life as a magnificent tree destined only to sectioned by BW. All you hear are comments on how useless you are, its a cruel excluding world for a bollard. However there is some goods news, some of your friends in London are loved, their keepers paint them and make them look like mushrooms - ahhh.Now isnt it time we, responsible canal users adopted these lonely unloved beings? We could give them names, like Robin, Sally or Tony and greet them as you walked past. in the winter they could raid the charity shops to find body warmers and pom pom hats to help them through the cold nights, wouldnt their little faces beam at the thought? Also with christmas coming they shouldnt be left out of the festivities,they too need Christmas cards, we should include them in Christmas day dinner - by having it on the lockside so they dont feel abandoned and excluded. Spread the messagethat it is good to love the bollards, cherish them and care for them, as they will find nothing else to enjoy in life. I feel really sad for those that sit near their grandfathers who have worn into shape with the passage of great time, they were lucky, they were born in the great days of the canals when the companies knew where bollards liked to live. So lets be kind to the Sally's, Tony's and Robin's and all their sad friends - adopt your local Bollard today - youll feel you made a contribution to an empty life - ahh [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
