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Fresno’s laundry list of bad habits

In Fresno, we love to run our automatic sprinklers in the rain even though they use precious groundwater. And who wants to walk to the garage to flip the sprinklers off?

We love to eat or text in our cars, as they idle in parking lots around our town.

We love our coffee and are willing to idle in line at Starbucks drive-thru 10 cars deep to get that coffee.

In Fresno we’re really good about getting those yard sale signs up, even if it blocks some old traffic sign. We like to leave the big signs up to show people they missed our sale.

And of course, we like to litter. Heck, someone will pick it up.

Larry Kotter, Fresno

This story was originally published December 6, 2016 at 3:16 PM with the headline "Fresno’s laundry list of bad habits."

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