Sometime ago a car ran into the front of a local pizza place, breaking the window and damaging the brickwork of the front wall. The window was replaced as well as the bricks, but the bricks weren’t painted to blend in with the rest of the bricks of the front of the restaurant.
Everytime we drove by, the unpainted bricks caught our eyes, like missing teeth, and we wondered if they would ever be painted. It could be months, maybe a year or so since the accident and it seemed as though the restaurant owners just didn’t think about painting the bricks. We had stopped going there, because we decided we liked another place’s pizza crust better.
Finally, as we turned the corner by the place recently, we noticed that the bricks were at last painted.
Then there is the pizza place in the strip mall that has recently been attractively remodelled whose employees were just throwing their soda cases on the mulch to the side of their new front door. Someone may have said something to them because on a recent visit, the cases are neatly stacked and tucked away around the corner.