Scenes from the gene pool

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Some time in the last few days, someone thought it would be a swell idea to dump their old couch by the side of Hardman Avenue in South St. Paul. There’s little I find more dispiriting than these sorts of “events,” which occur far too frequently. What kind of person thinks so much of himself and so little of everyone else?

But here’s the accompanying dumped item I found interesting…

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A fertilizer spreader suggests that perhaps the person who dumped this stuff has a certain pride in how the immediate area around his home appears — or did at one time.