Living in the Scoot Utopia

Just days after the City Council passed its new ordinance banning aggressive panhandling, restricting panhandling in general, and severely restricting street performing; I got hit up by panhandlers on at three consecutive downtown intersections. The first by car, the next two by foot. The panhandlers approached me en masse, followed me, repeating their calls for money and getting up close about it. They were right on the corner and stepping out into the street, making them impossible to avoid. In-between two groups of panhandlers I came across a band of street performers totally blocking the sidewalk while performing directly in front of the doors of a business.

Yep, it's Blue Monday again. Where's John Fairfield when we need him?