County parks closed on Tuesdays

Poor Tuesday. What's so great about Tuesday? There used to be a commercial on the radio that proclaimed Tuesday as the most boring day of the week and that nothing significant ever happened on a Tuesday. (Except for the deeply discounted pizza or sandwich or whatever the commercial was for.)

I suppose Broward County thinks Tuesdays are meaningless, too, because now county parks will be closed on Tuesdays because of budget cuts. The big regional parks will be open, but the majority of the rest will be closed.

To my son and me, this means we can't walk the boardwalk at Tall Cypress, Fern Forest or Secret Woods. No climbing the tower up to the trees at Treetops Park. No listening for the great horned owl at Woodmont Natural Area. I know we could go another day, but we won't be able to get our nature fix on Tuesdays. City parks will be open on Tuesdays -- at least until city officials get wind of Tuesday's image problem -- but city parks are generally smaller and not as green as county parks, which are more "nature-y." (That's the precise ecologist's word.)

So, in a word, "Waaah!" Am I the only person in the county who thinks this is unfair?

Now my son and I will be looking for something else to do on Tuesdays -- something bland, boring, meaningless and insignificant. That's all Tuesdays are good for.