I got kind of excited when John Clifford blogged about the ever-deserted gas station at the corner of Alvarado and Garey being a Christmas tree lot this year. This is the only sign of life there in the 7 years we have lived there, unless you want to count the semi-trucks that park there from time to time and the active decay situation with the grounds themselves.
But driving by today on my way to and from Stater Bros., I was kinda disappointed that the tree lot people had not made more of an effort to make the abandoned gas station itself more festive. Aside from a plastic poster of Santa Claus on the front door, the place looks it's same, sad, abandoned self.
I was thinking we would buy a small tree at that lot this year, but if they are going to put that little merry into it, maybe we just go with our original plan of buying a small live tree at Home Depot. Either way, Pomona gets my tax dollars.
And as for the $400 I just paid L.A. County for a speeding ticket for going 44 miles down Towne, well I'm still too mad to blog about that. Just trying to think of it as my Christmas gift to Pomona, should they get some small portion of the proceeds.
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