Saturday, October 31, 2009

Local Trivia, Waltham: Unsanitary napkin (horror)

Well, the maxipad that had been just down the block on Charles St. for the last two months, being slowly (very slowly...creepily slowly) degraded by natural elements (people would avoid stepping on it, of course, and so rain and dirt would accumulate and dissipate), down to the least natural portions (a piece of plastic), is finally gone.

After awhile, it lost the sense of bioterror that it had held originally, but as it just refused to disappear, and no one cleaned it up, it gained a new kind of horror -- like a zombie that won't be killed, it had lost any sense of humanness and gained a pseudo-life of its own.

Nobody misses it, of course, but I think most of us still step around the area where it used to be.

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