Slum Redux

There are about ten private garbage collection companies that service all of the commercial and residential buildings in the Lower Makiki ghetto. The dumpster dumptrucks begin their rounds daily at 1:30am. The trucks have inch into the narrow corridors where the dumpsters are located. The maneuver requires going forward and backward at least ten times. While reversing, the OSHA warning alarm, a loud beeping, is activated. The sound reverberates throughout the ghetto.

The routes for the trucks appear random, so once a pickup is made, the trucks travel several blocks to other locations. With ten different trucks randomly going through the ‘hood, the collection interval is approximately every 15 minutes. So, every 15 minutes after 1:30am on until 7am in the morning, there is an intermittent loud series of beeps. The effect is similar to an alarm clock going off every 15 minutes for six hours straight. That’s life in the fucking Lower Makiki slum.

And, what about the senior citizens who reside in the “old folks home”? No problem-o! They just take out their hearing aids. They can’t hear anything after that.

Addendum: Traffic from the streets adjacent to the “old folks home” produces an immense amount of pollution. A thin layer of black soot covers everything in the “old folks home” cell. The floor must be cleaned daily. The soot is so bad that the exterior of all of the buildings are permanently stained black.

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