Fresh Concrete
Aug. 27th, 2010 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plumtreeblossomSeen this morning etched in a recently poured square of residential sidewalk near work, in huge block print:
I LOVE MAIREAD
8-20-10
Only a week old. There's still concrete smear around the edges of the new square. That message will be there for perhaps 30 or 40 years, maybe longer. I've noticed that no fresh concrete in Medford is safe. Names and dates are scratched into many patches of replacement concrete in the areas I've walked there. I don't advocate writing in wet concrete (other than doggie footprints, which make me gleeful). But at least this new one was a positive message of love. Think how much worse it could have been in this current culture of widespread recreational hating. And lucky Mairead. She's immortalized for decades. Well, unless it was unrequited love, in which case she might be mortified, and....okay I need to stop speculating now.
8-20-10
Only a week old. There's still concrete smear around the edges of the new square. That message will be there for perhaps 30 or 40 years, maybe longer. I've noticed that no fresh concrete in Medford is safe. Names and dates are scratched into many patches of replacement concrete in the areas I've walked there. I don't advocate writing in wet concrete (other than doggie footprints, which make me gleeful). But at least this new one was a positive message of love. Think how much worse it could have been in this current culture of widespread recreational hating. And lucky Mairead. She's immortalized for decades. Well, unless it was unrequited love, in which case she might be mortified, and....okay I need to stop speculating now.
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