In 1996, New York City’s maintenance workers went on strike. This is one ten-year-old’s take on the impending chaos.
[sic everything]
They garbage will be everywhere
city will be garbage
No trucks
they lose there jobs
they get a raise
central park will be garbage park
the city will smell bad
you would have to wear a mask to breathe
family might get mad at them
everyone will be recycleing and reusing
more natural things
garbage could get into ponds and kill/hurt animals
everything will be made of trash
people would burn garbage
more fires
fire department and doctors will get more jobs
People could die
Doctors will work over time
Bugs
Cans overflow
plants Die
no more air
no clean water
take bath constantly
people couldn’t get out of there house and die
fin
Jaya Saxena is a New Yorker who writes for lots of things. The Toast, Uncommon Courtesy, and New Amsterdam Mystery Company are some of them. Follow her on Twitter @jayasax. Matt Lubchansky makes comics and occasionally leaves his apartment in New York. His work includes Please Listen to Me and New Amsterdam Mystery Company. He's on Twitter, and doesn't expect you to get his name right.