I always chat to the bollards in my local supermarket. Poor things they move around and always end up on the wet bits of floor or stuck in the toilets. They are so much more friendly than the staff - they don't dump trolleys full of frozen food and then go to coffee - or spend long period stopping customers getting to shelves while they discuss the local Rugby team. A bollard in the right place is a good bollard. Mind you the ones I talk to don't cost a small fortune each and are painted yellow so you see them. And, like all good bollards they have names beginning with B. And one assumes that all the bollards at each lock are the same sex - we can't have breeding bollards!
--- On Sun, 9/28/08, rb999sb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: rb999sb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: The new "Bollards" - a victim of social exclusion? To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 10:30 PM --- In canals-list@ yahoogroups. com, "micheal_wittman" <micheal_wittman@ ...> wrote: > > > > 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 > I love the idea of calling the bollards Sally. :-)) Sue [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
