8.23.2006

Park fountain

I really should carry a camera with me at all times. Walking back from lunch I saw something that would have made a wonderful photo. The fountain is normally filled with shrieking children and hesitant adults. It stood silent and dry. A Spokane Parks Maintenance truck was parked next to it and orange barricades circled the manhole leading to the underground plumbing. All around the orange barricades a ring of children in still damp bathing suits lined up staring intently at the maintenance worker who shouted down the hole, "Can you hurry up and turn it on down there? I think they're going to through me down the hole in a minute!!"

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