10 February 2009, 9:09 am
by:Anthony J Trimboli- EDITORIAL- Ozone Park, New York- Earlier today, I almost ran over a videocassette in the road on the Cross Island Parkway heading South going home from Cambria Heights, Queens to do some shopping.
Generally, I laughed with some guys doing NYC DOT work on the Belt Parkway West concerning me almost running over a videocasette tape in the road. I still can not believe how easy going the NYC DOT workers I joked around with in person were concerning this issue of the video casette tape I almost ran over in the road.
Surely, in New York City, you are not allowed to ask them or report to them or any other city agency or New York City Transit something that their badge can not handle. For example, if you tell a token booth clerk something that their badge can not handle, the clerk will refuse your conversation in the New York City Subway Station. The same applies today even more so to workers in numerous agencies like you can not stop a NYC Sanitation worker to merely report something, you have to use 311, but if it is in their best interests, they can go over and check it out.
New York City has been strict recently. You have all these laws and bi laws all around you and like you can not report something to a token booth clerk of the NYC Subways if it does not fall into their badge number and all the clerk will say to your important story is like it is not in my badge, report to customer service, I can not take that rather than merely pick up the phone and report another station condition.
I can not believe how easy going these NYC DOT workers were when I just laughed with them about the videocasette in the road as they were doing work over there by Lefferts Blvd exit on the N Conduit Avenue. They laughed but it really held their interest not in a way where they constantly question you heavily like the NYPD or say to you we show no involvement like the NYPD or parts of NYC Sanitation because it may seem strange to have a videocasette in the road or it may involve the neighbors, as NYC Sanitation says that they do not want people getting involved with the neighbors, but they have a point there.
It is always good to have a listening ear like those NYC DOT workers I encountered personally on the N Conduit exit for Lefferts Blvd today with this videocasette tape. I am sure they are over there and just looking at the area. Hell, maybe the videocasette tape was not destroyed after all.
But, New York City has gotten too much into laws and bi laws, like I could not merely tell them on the street unless they worked with that department, which they did... Everything today is 311 and that went marvelously smooth. They got such a laugh at the videocasette tape I almost ran over today in the parkway over there in Laurelton, New York.
Anthony J Trimboli age 29 Writer
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