Sixteen inches of snow in the last 24 hours, I’m driving to the train station. I had to use my 4 wheel drive, as our car could not navigate the deep snow on the unplowed roads. Driving past a small city cemetery at 6:30 AM, I see 3 city snow plows cleaning the roads in the cemetery. Thinking this might be not the best use of the equipment, given the traffic attempting to get through the roads, I called the city mangers office and was put in touch with the “head of that department.” He explained to me that the trucks were stored at the cemetery building, and it “made sense” to clean those roads while they were there. I questioned this, as it would be preferable, I thought, to make the roads safe for drivers going to work so they can pay the taxes that in turn pay the snow crew’s wages. His response? “Well, the drivers have to get the cemetery roads cleaned sometime that day and it is policy to clean the cemetery first.”
It doesn’t make common sense to me. How about you?
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