So today the family and I experienced our first Charlotte parade. Of course Labor Day doesn't necessarily get folks in a festive mood, so that is perhaps why this parade was fairly modest. It seems the only people that get excited about labor unions are families with small children who do not travel on three day weekends, and politicians. To me there is a great irony in the fact that the labor unions are joined with politicians to march in these things. Strange bedfellows indeed!
To join in on the irony, were a contingent from the Green Party which marched between a bunch of postal workers on very loud motorcycles, which they incessantly revved, and a convoy of PT Cruisers. I'm sure they loved that. The bigger irony though was when one party member handed my family two identical brochures. She was gone before I could hand one back. One other party member tried to give us another one, but I told him to save the trees and keep them. To their credit, they also handed out pencils to my sons and told us they were 100% recycled. Hats off to them for marching. Trying to promote being green in Charlotte must be an uphill battle.
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