So, sometime the pleasant picket fence went by the wayside and was replaced by the fence that doesn't let you see into the yard at all. Or, at least, there are a lot of these in Cambridge. The usual height of these fences are about 6 - 6 1/2 feet, which is tall enough. The owners of the property spent a lot time/energy/money renovating their house so that it looks splendid, and then their final act was to put this giant fence up to hide it. This fence is at least 7 1/2 feet tall, on a side of the street that is otherwise unobtrusively fenced. I tell you, this fence is aggressive. I walk by and I feel like it's provoking me. It speaks, this fence. Sneery, taunting things.
Or maybe not, but the fence is too ostentatiously tall for an otherwise laid-back neighborhood. After all, the menace right across the street that they are keeping out is the Harvard Divinity School.
Anyway, if you look at the picture above, you can see over on the right there is a sheet of paper attached to the sign. Close-up:
I didn't do this, nor was I the one who added "I agree!", although I do agree. I think if I had written the sign it would have said, "This fence is an atrocity" or "This fence bespeaks an ugly soul." I'm normally not one to give into Schadenfence, but I'm not going to feel bad if some teenager tags this fence.
3 comments:
in the woodlands, a real hometown (tm), we require fences of an exact height, assuming you put up a fence. i can't remember the minimum and maximum height. maybe there are such rules in the neighborhood and this person exceeded them.
This is nothing compared to the "fences" in Rio (concrete walls, barbed wire or pieces of glass on top, alarms, dogs, security gards for richer folks). It's all relative :-)
D: That would rock if this person could be litigated against.
L: Yes, no dogs on top of Cambridge fences.
AJ: True, not even a gazelle could jump this fence.
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