F y’all gettin’ paid to shovel the snow with the snowplows (or snowtrucks, as some of you know it to be), then let me ask you this question: how the hell ya’ snowplow get snowed in? Make it make some sense. I stay on the Waterfront, and that’s where the rich and powerful stay and where most of the big businesses are. So, that means the sidewalks and pavement (especially for the handicapped) should have been shoveled or mostly cleared before the snow turned into ice. But, they weren’t.
On the evening of Jan. 25, I decided I wanted to go make some runs, until I saw the streets were covered with snow. Why? Because half of your so-called city workers weren’t doing their jobs. I was literally lookin’ at these people being lazy. Check it. I had made it up in my mind that I wanted to go to the trenches in Southeast. So, I’m thinkin’ I’mma ride the bus and come back, but instead, I come out to a street full of snow. The first thing that hit my mind was “Didn’t they say on the news the snow trucks were out there for the purpose of not letting it get like this?” While I was waiting on the C11, I lie to you not, I saw a snowtruck snowed in. There was a lady and her son who I knew were waiting on the C11 (which wasn’t running, because the buses weren’t running) with me, and she told me the truck that was snowed in had been sitting there since that morning. And, I know she wasn’t lying because there was not even any evidence of tire tracks in the snow. What the hell was ya’ city workers doin’ all those hours?
The next day, I decided I was going to try it again, but this time if the buses weren’t running, I was going to walk there. It took me a while to get to Southeast by Anacostia, but when I got there, the streets were clearer over there than they were on the Southwest side. It was so clear that the C31 was the only bus that was running; it ran late but she got the job done. If that doesn’t make you question yourself about what’s really going on wit’cha tax dollar money, lemme ask you ‘dis: Why is it that when I got back to the Waterfront, I was actually looking at one of the city workers driving the snowplow, but not picking up any snow until I said something about it? Really?!
Y’all might not like what I’m ‘bout to state, but Mr. Donald Trump is taking jobs from the wrong people. Da hell y’all gettin’ paid fa’ if ya’ just sittin’ on ya’ ass, and some of you posting on the phone while you’re at work?! Then, when someone like me says something about it, some of you want to try to play victim or come up wit’ some excuse that doesn’t even make sense when you try to explain it. If you people who work for the government state that you respect God, and Romans 13:1 states to obey the government for God is the one who has put it there, then why are you not abiding by the laws y’all created that y’all stated everyone, including yourselves, have to abide by? Yeah, ok!
Donté Turner is an artist/vendor with Street Sense.
