Today's Toast

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Today I toast the City of Oakland. Wow! Unexpected, I know. First of all, unexpected that a municipal government would ever be toasted. What with all that brickjam bureaucracy and statically stalling speakers on such and such issues talking about this and that and gosh I'm already bored. But today, on my lunch break as I ambled along Grand Avenue and thought about getting my nails or my hair done, I noticed something that snatched my attention from my self-preening deliberations. I came across it while in the middle of crossing the street, and as I was rather taken aback, I had to remind my feet to scurry along seeking safety on the sidewalk. Written in white on a green sign, what I saw reminded me of Charlie Bucket's four grandparents, Joe and Josephine, George and Georgina. The street I had just crossed was Boulevard Way. Some humorous city planner must have thought that one day it would make giving directions quite a tickly debacle. I live on street, wait no lane, dammit court no oh yeah I live on Boulevard. Hat's off to you Oakland.


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