Louis The Scooterer: Where I like and don't like

Story #1
 
On the street where I live.
 
I live in a nice small apartment in a nice block in a nice street in a nice area. SO how lucky can I get ?
 
My nice apartment that I rent has windows facing north overlooking the pool, that is surrounded by 5 highrise buildings.

4 are still under construction...once there was a view of the fields in the distance...now only high-rise apartment buildings.
 
So how lucky can I get?
 
The 4 under construction produce much dusty dry sand, dirt and grime, and so my nice apartment is always filthy dirty, and needs floor-washing at least 3 times a  day (or I walk on gritty sand). But hooray, the noise has become minimal..meaning not a lot of loud noises!!
 
How lucky can I get ?
 
My windows that face the sea allows me a small seaview, and can see a short stretch of the street (boulevard), which all the time has many vehicles, mostly driving too fast...as well as many big trucks coming and going to the 3 major building sites with entrances on the road.

 
So how lucky can I get ?
 
Because of the highrise buildings, the sun  has been blocked mostly, so it never touches the north side of the building. This apartment is freezing cold, and at times when the sun is shining beautifully outside, I sit at my table with the heater from the airconditioner blowing.
 
So how lucky can I get ?
 
LUCKIER than the people who live on the other side of the building! BUT those apts get a good amount of afternoon sun and I assume they  are warm(er)...LUCKY for them? I wonder.
 
For several months on the other (the warmer) side of the building there has been a major demolition of a 10 storey hotel, that was smashed down with a heavy weight on a chain operated by a man in a crane,

and bang..boom..bomm..crashhh..hour after hour, day after day for a couple of months this ball smashed the building, and caused extra dust that went everywhere...including into my apt on the other side...(the cold side that never gets the sun)..
 
Then when the ballsmashing was over, the noisy loud monster drills moved in, to demolish the lower floors, and lower down to break-up the a couple of basement floors. Again mountains of dust.

but lucky I did not to hear the main noise. Currently there are several trucks doing drilling for placement of pilings, a real loud noisy noise all day, with trucks taking away the rubble and trucks bringing concrete and other building materials.

 
And SO how lucky can I get?
 
And because time flies so quickly, most of  the pilings are now in place and all day the big trucks arrive, are loaded with soil and driven away..and soon I guess a high crane will be put in place..
 
someone told me "just another 5 years" of construction!!
 
SO how lucky can I get.
 
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Story #2
 
WHAT I DONT LIKE...BUT CAN'T CHANGE
 
Since my eyesight is excellent, and I love nature,I like looking, and being in fields and hills and valleys and water and  mountains and rocks and flowers, and seeing and cliffs and wide open spaces and it is rare that I visit a high rise building and shopping malls.
 
I needed to be in one, in the center of Tel Aviv, with glitzy shopping malls and shops and boutiques, eating places, coffeeshops and more.
 
Since it's still natural that I love looking at beautiful things, I also noticed many beautiful females. I couldn't believe how many beautiful Roses and Daisy and Iris and Lily and Jasmine, and Poppy, Petunia and Dalia, and a host of other names... that I saw, in the few hours that I ambled around in this mall.
 
Many in designer jeans and miniskirts and long trousers and all sorts of fashionable clothes, and many beautiful children up to 10 years old and many beautiful girls and teenagers up to 19 and lovely young women say up to 30... and stunning older women.
 
I even noticed a few men that crossed my vision, in and around the offices, and so many boutiques and jeans shops and shoe shops and toy shops, and all the others.
 
It seems that malls are "a dime a dozen" here in Israel..oops, that would be "a shekel for 10". Someone said it's "natural progress" that high rise buildings will sprout up from where flowers and trees once grew.
 
I s'pose so?
 
One thing I noticed in my favour that almost everywhere were "no smoking" areas...but I wasn't surprised that many people go outside the many entrance doors to smoke, and there, the stink of many different cigarettes, constantly pollutes the air. What a shame, because also at these entrance doors, there may be some real trees on the sidewalks and real flowers in flowerbeds.
 
I saw some natural things as well, inside the natural man-made lobbies and passages, but mostly the sun never touches the inside.

I saw mountains of food on many plates in all sorts of eating places, and many beautiful flowers made of coloured material..and a few real ones as well,  and water flowing in some man-made ponds and also small fountains. I saw hills and valleys in many lingerie or bikini tops shops...but mostly I didn't see the sky...or feel the wind.
 
From the observation windows under the top floor, I saw  hundreds of  other buildings on all sides, where once there were sand dunes and shrubs and trees and streams, and birds and maybe even wild animals.

 
Good ole progress? Inside those thousands of buildings there will be some natural things - even some insects and mice and rats and cats.
 
Still I saw many beautiful females
in and out of fashion stores..
up n down escalators..
down n up the elevators..
on n off the chairs in the eat and drink places.
 
I couldn't drink-in all the interesting things and places from the viewing windows, so I guess at least another visit is due.
What did impress me was new large glass sheets being fitted to be the ceiling from the railway station into the shopping center..

and maybe I will pay another visit to a different mall....somewhere.

 
OR maybe I will re-visit the real nature outside. Before "them wide-open spaces" could become high rise buildings.
 
Rather give me the real hills and valleys made from sand and rocks, and flowers made from real flowers and let the beautiful people join me under the trees in the shade watching a real stream streaming by and the butterflies fluttering by, and the birds...and ...and.
 
Wishful thinking.. but please email me louisdrinkingt@013.net