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Date Posted: 08:29:34 08/11/01 Sat
Author: Naturally
Subject: Please be kind, don't make them grind!

I just dedicated an hour of my life to reading everything that has been posted about the weighty topic of grinder pumps. I’ve read about Nazi tactics at the Sewer Department, indifferent politicians who laugh at their constituents, more technical information then I knew existed about these things, and Indian artifacts. This sure has become an all encompassing issue.

It looks like there’s gonna be a showdown. A debate between the pump grumps and a tentative Selectman. The question that immediately pops into mind is why are the Selectmen carrying, uhh, water, for the Sewer Dept.? (been dying to use that line!) I guess Mr. Buxton, holding a position in municipal government, loathes to interact with of all people, townspeople. He with all the diplomacy of a third-world despot. Why doesn’t he step up to the plate and debate? Can’t imagine he’s that much of a shrinking violet. Like many in government he likely lives a duality. The one on one persona and the public glad-handing one.

I just hope it isn’t Warren who debates this issue. This is the guy whose annual contribution to the Scholarship Fund is a pile of cow manure. I just don’t think he has the same perspective on waste products and their value as do the majority of the folks in town! This is not to diminish all the other contributions that he does make, and they are many.

But with all the numerous controversies the meld into the great sewer debate, all I can think about is my grandmother.

According to Sharon Dupont, the Forest Park Rd. area consists mostly of elderly. Now, if that be the case we have to acknowledge a few things. First, I thought the town was on a kick to be kinder & gentler to the older folks in town. This would seem an ideal opportunity to give some action to that sentiment. But there are other factors too.

The elderly, due to health problems, spend allot of their time riding the bowl. You got your Lasix for your heart problems, your Colace for the constipation brought on by your arthritis medication. Add to that a heightened level of free-floating anxiety just because you’re getting older and the world is changing a hundred times faster than you can keep up with.

Which brings me to Nana.. During the Blizzard of 78, which caught everyone off guard, Nana’s oil tank went below half. While everyone was watching Shelby Scott lashed to a piling down in Scituate Harbor, Nana was keeping a constant vigil on the tank gauge and calling us a hundred times a day, beside herself that she may run out of oil. Since then, as soon as Don Kent said an approaching storm had just entered the Carolinas, she was on the phone to the “Oil man” so he could top off her tank. And she would wait by the door until he arrived.

Now I don’t think Nana was unique for her age group. When you get older, you worry more. Imagine each time you go to flush, or there’s a power outage, or a series of hot days like we’ve just had - along with your bad knee, and the damn paper boy whose always late and the rising cost of your medications, you’ve got to worry everyday is the grinder pump going to crap out on you.

On that basis alone we ought to just give them the gravity pump. I mean, bowl time ought to be a sanctuary from the world. A place to scan the Reader’s Digest, or depending on your regularity, the Encyclopedia Britannica. The only worry you should have is why your lazy husband didn’t put a new roll on the dispenser thing and if doing the drawers down shuffle to get some paper is going to result in a broken hip. Other than that, let these people go with the gravity flow!

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