Golly, this area has been on TV, how unusual.
This time it wasn't a car chase or some gangsters getting in a gun fight with the 'law'. Or a rubbish, snobby, racially dubious romance. This time it was one of those 'Slime stabbers' type cleaning/reality shows.
I can't remember it's proper name, but it was one of those generic 'Grime Smashers' kind of names.
In this show we were following a 'hygiene standards officer' or something like that, a lady with a self important job title and official looking hat. This lady was the possessor of dark, council given powers. Out there on the mean streets she was boss, and she tackled the everyday horror's of life as if she were an Iron clad warrior. Like on today's show when she fearlessly tackled a...dog turd. And boy, did she swing into action, using all the powers at her discretion, and some.
With grim determination, we saw the officially named lady use all of her appointed powers to block the exit off the Westway M40 at EastBourne Terrace as if she were decorating the road with bollards, regardless of the tailbacks she was causing on the Westway.
The exit off the raised Motorway was closed down and the traffic blocked to allow one of Westminster council's fleet of little little blue cleaning vehicle's to drive up the wrong side of the road to reach the pooh, and when he eventually rolled into place, he had done so going at a steady 4mph all the way.
The driver got out, rummaged in a side box on his wheeled box's side, took out a bottle, and poured a liberal amount of some chemical all over and around the pooh, then they all stood about and waited.
The reaction of the pooh in question to this chemical attack soon began, it was starting to fizzle and bubble away till a hose could be unrolled from another space in the little blue box, and the chemical/pooh bubble mix could be flushed into the kerb.
Once this achingly long process was complete, the little blue box drove off at it's steady 4mph, and once it had gone far enough, the bollards were removed and the Westway traffic was allowed to exit once more. This whole 'for the camera' drama took ages, the pooh was on a part of pavement bigger than some roads, the council could of just mounted the kerb in one of their wheeled blue boxes and done it that way, but the lady with the posh job name and hat had to show us how much power she wielded out there on the mean streets. I'm sure that the loads of stalled cars coming off the Westway were very happy to know that a pooh was so decisively dealt with, and I'm sure, found it an acceptable reason to wait for so long.
Next scene we see the lady in Mozart street, and her acting like a cross nursery teacher. She is telling off builders who have stacked up rubbish bags from a house they are working on, they are made to "tidy them up" prior to collection, the builders are looking at her as if to say "are you for real?" (that was the politest look!).
After half watching her jabbing away with her Biro at rubble bags, and only half listening to her tell us of the importance of something I didn't find important enough to pay attention to, I became bored and a little 'upset' at the screen, you know how it gets, first you get old, then you start to shout at the TV. Life eh?
Anyway, I grew bored at this lady's psychotic reaction to keeping the streets clean 'on her watch' (at least while the cameras are on her, the places where we saw her go are normally full of crap).
Friday, 18 December 2009
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