Head in the clouds

Author: graeme

Date: November 5, 2007

by graeme
11-05-07
What do you mean, I need planning permission for this place? I'm living in a cumulonimbus cloud ten thousand feet up! It'll be here whether I live in it or not!
As your democratically elected councillor and chair of the local planning committee, I must enforce the rules. The cloud's allowed to be here. It's you living in it that's the problem.
Why? What possible trouble could I cause by living up here?
I'm a retired homeowner and property investor, one of many in the area. You, being a young person in full-time work, are six hundred quid a month rent - that we're not getting.
The phrase "conflict of interest" has no meaning to you, does it?
Stop whining. I've earned my place in society! I was born earlier, and I... I'm... erm.... Look, just get down.