the building of the good old faculty of political science is where time stood still for me, being the location my mom inhabited when she first came to bucharest, and she felt the shakes of 1977 earthquake. now a proud institution of higher and mightier education since 1991, it also registers me among its yearly enlarging student-body. it is also a web of bizarre coincidences for me because i got to meet so many alumni outside school that it got me thinking everybody went to my school at some point. that sounds about right, since we label ourselves citizens, now *european*moreover, we all should try to understand what it means to be this type of modern animal. one way of doing it is perhaps a trip to this tiny university, but keep your attention limited, as you might observe how different bodies of administration or government don't give a rats ass about the power of citizenship.
too much ado about nothing, one might say, but i was happy that day when i saw that in front of my faculty building there stood three large garbage containers with bright labels on them telling us what to feed each. there was
BLUE for GENERAL WASTE
GREEN for PLASTIC
YELLOW for PAPER AND CARDBOARD
it is marvelous that Bucharest finally started to apply something that more honest cityhalls have since a few years ago (Timisoara for eg.), but hey, there is also the splendid banner from district 2 town hall advising to "selectively collect the waste" and explains how:
BLUE for PAPER AND CARDBOARD
GREEN for WHITE AND COLOURED GLASS
YELLOW for PLASTIC
parallel universe! i think, and a write an e-mail to the Investment and Public Service Dept (Mr. Corneliu Drug) demanding at least a metaphysical account of the magic banner. After 11 days i get an empty e-mail with an attachment of a scan "communicating " me that he firm SUPERCOM SA was informed about this issue and asked to eliminate the error.
i wonder how long will it take to correct this and if they still consider it allright to offend the bucharest people's intelligence by doing stuff like providing for differentiated garbage or bike lanes without minding how operable the result is and bragging about it on wasted budget. and these are just details we can see, never mind the big stunts with big money.who in the world needed those banners?
photos: you can see the uni building in the back, and my public excuses to the man accidentally in the shot. my thanks to the guy/girl who grafitti-ed the containers, as it makes things more bearable, eliminating one of the two options.
i am now in the register of the town hall as a "solved complaint" case:
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the solution was found later on:The 3 garbage containers were moved from under the banner 2m away, and now it takes a targeted effort to compare words and colors. nobody took the damn thing off. i'll try to do it as a celebration of graduating in june.
i bow in the face of Romanian inventiveness.
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