Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Door flyers



I am annoyed by door flyers. Can't we pass a city resolution to ban them?! I understand that advertising is expensive and that the ol' USPS doesn't give many breaks, but I am being flyer-ed to death. Pizza delivery, month-to-month auto insurance, gardening services, home remodeling, you name it--I get it, slipped beneath my wiper blade, my welcome mat, rubber banded to my door handle, or just left to lie in the walk.

Funny how the flyer 'handers-outers' never come back by, to pick up the discards, those blown by the wind, soaked by the rain, tossed in the gutter.

I want redemption values attached to flyers, just like used-up drink bottles. I wouldn't mind at all if a guy came by on Saturday mornings pushing a cart full of crumpled pizza chain door knockers, hittin' me up for my rug cleaning notices. "Hey man, I'm on the way to the recycling center, you got any of those green slips I can take off you--you know the ones that say 'Alfombras'?"

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