Thursday, February 19, 2009
My Baby, She Roped Me a Ladder
Posted by Kevin Allman on Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Photo by Flickr user CoreyAnn. Rights reserved under this Creative Commons license.
Two days until Endymion -- and just one more day to vote in Gambit's completely and totally scientific reader poll about the use of ladders on Mardi Gras parade routes. Just click:
Ladders: Love 'em? Regulate 'em? Ban 'em?
And feel free to leave your thoughts on ladders here.
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I hated them until the day a friend left me in charge of his kids for the passage of a few floats. I climbed up there behind the kids and, well, the view is awesome and the kids really get a great eye level experience of the passing parade. I can definitely see why parents use these. The key, as with so much else, is civility. A solid wall of ladders right up front doesn't work.
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I'm not a big fan of lugging excessive gear so I'm against ladders. Back in the 60s you'd just put your little kid on your shoulders, while any others ran around your feet "bottom feeding" the dropped beads. Nowadays we don't want our kids to have to suffer at all. Perish the thought they wouldn't have a front row seat handed to them, and not have to compete on the ground with the serfs' kids :-P
Nobody is suggesting ladders are bad. All we are saying is that people follow the law: keep them back from the curb, and do not rope them together to try to claim a private piece of neutral ground.
I don't have strong feelings about ladders, but this post has one of the best headlines ever.
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