I hereby give permission to my friends and close acquaintances to slap me across the face if ever I become the cranky person who says shit like “I won’t go downtown. It’s scary” or “It’s too hard to park, so I won’t bother to go” or “Nobody goes to [insert description of place that plenty of people are going to and the person talking would know that if they removed their head from out their ass]”. The thought of losing touch with reality in that way makes me cringe, yet I know it’s not an inevitable trajectory.
As people return to public social activities, we hear and read an increase in such unfounded, misguided complaints that were pleasantly lacking in the last year and a half.
From these photos, it appears that Downtown, and elsewhere in Hartford, is doing just fine without the haters anyway.
Okay, so maybe don’t slap me. Just pull up this series of photos. Remember when? The best times are not in the past. They are now, whenever now is.
