Sumertime

Living a block away from trendy restaurant row has its obvious advantages (including incredible take-out choices on the way home from work.) But it also has its drawbacks, especially in the heat of the summer. The walk to work each morning is a challenge. Trash collectors have taken away the big black bags of food garbage, but left behind the seepage from the night which now festers in the sun and the humidity to create a horrendously vile smell. Soon, the street cleaners will come by, and then the restaurants themselves will open and send someone out with a sudsy bucket and mop, but for those brief hours of morning it's horrifying. It's hard to imagine wanting to eat in any of them.