Only in Ireland

One reason I love Ireland is because it is so endearing. For the most part, the culture here is very similar. But, like the story of the builders constructing the wrong university building on the NUIG campus, sometimes Ireland is very different than the US. Last weekend I came upon another story like this that reminded me why I love this place. We were on our awesome land/water tour in Dublin and boated past an old ferry. The ferry was docked with one side facing the an apartment building, and the other side facing the opposite side of the river, where there was another, more distant, apartment complex. The side facing the river, and that we saw, was completely run down. It looked like a boat that had (barely) survived the Perfect Storm. The funny part was that the other side was newly painted and in great shape. This was because the people in one apartment complex complained about the boat, while the people on the other side did not. So what did they do? They painted the side that faced those who complained, and left the side that faced those who didn't. It was yet another "only in Ireland" experience.