By Elliott Brack, editor and publisher | Three cheers for the City of Lilburn. The City is doing something during Dog Days that is applaudable.
Remember seeing reports from New York City of that city turning on fire hydrants during hot weather so that the kids (and some adults) can splash around in the water?
Well, Lilburn is doing something similar. On Wednesday, July 29, the city is turning on its sprinklers in a section of Lilburn City Park for the kids to enjoy. Come play from 10 a.m. until noon in the sprinklers and enjoy the refreshing cool of the water! That’s wonderful! The city is also planning to do this on the last Wednesday in August, on the 26th. It will be Sprinkler Day again! The city requires that the children enjoying the sprinkler be supervised by an adult.
But three cheers for Lilburn for taking this plunge for cooling off with sprinklers. It’s something the other cities can promote for children in those areas.
So Monday was my lucky day, it turns out, when I was least expecting it.
A couple of weeks ago, something happened to me that has happened to most of us at one time or another: I could not find my car key. Of course, others were enrolled in searching for the key, yet no where could it be found. In today’s modern switch system, losing a car key is no long a simple move. Today’s modern key operates differently, and costs a pretty penny, about $200, if you have to replace it.
Monday didn’t start out well to begin with. Besides still using my wife’s key to my car, when I switched on the smart car, it told me that my left rear tire had only 24 pounds of pressure, and I should correct the situation immediately.
So having some quarters in my pocket, I headed early-on to the service station, ready to feed the air hose machine with those quarters to pump up the tire. I was also hoping that I had not picked up a nail, and that was the reason for the low pressure.
What a surprise at the gas station. No longer are quarters useful. No longer was adding air at this station something you did by inserting coins. Now air cost a dollar! You had to swipe your credit card to activate the machine. No cash allowed! But with the tire pressure low, suddenly the dollar was worth it. So I swiped a credit card, pumped the tire up, but still don’t know if there is a nail in the tire.
But then…..suddenly, my world changed! For as I started to climb back into the driver’s seat, lo and behold, there was a car key right by the door under the driver’s seat. At first, I thought perhaps I had dropped the second key there. But it was in the car’s key slot. I had found the first set. I had saved spending $200 for another key. All of a sudden, I had already had a good morning….and was not even to the office yet!
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