My latest atrocity concerns a flight of stairs.
Writing on a local real estate blog, I noted the repair of some holes in a hillside sidewalk-staircases, and compared the city's filling-in of crumbling concrete steps to a time that I had repaired a partially-disintegrated cake by stuffing it with bread and slopping on layer upon layer of desperate icing. I was pretty pleased with that analogy until it was published, at which point commenters let me know exactly...
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