There is a Water shortage in New York City , which means that businesses should not use large amounts of water to wash the sidewalks. (See: Drought Management Plan) This means that the 24 hour Dunkin¹ Donuts across the street needs to wait until there is no Police in sight, like now, at 4:40 in the morning, to wash their sidewalk. What do they care, a smelly sidewalk equals fewer customers (at least human ones), which is worse than no water. (I stopped showering more than a month ago, just to save water for New York City. Who¹s the bravest now?... Just kidding.) One other thing just occured to me, looking at the man in front of Dunkin¹ Donuts washing the sidewalk before sunrise. The pile of trash in front of the 24 hour Dunkin¹ Donuts is less than half the size of the trash pile in front of McDonald¹s next door, which is not even 24 hours. It might be that McDonald¹s get much more business, but I have the feeling that they are producing much more trash in general. Hmm. There is the bad, and then there is the pretty ugly...