Remember a month ago when China’s major bragging point was the city would be decorated with over 40 million flower pots?

Well, check out the picture to see what China did with all those flowers. Apparantly, "pots" meant plastic holders, and "decorate" meant put on the hot, concrete, crowded sidewalk. Now that the Games are over, many of the flowers are just dead, and their plastic holders look melted.

I mean, I’m all for beautification efforts. But can’t we plant the flowers rather than put them in the middle of the sidewalk? It's so sad to see those flowers dying on the sidewalk next to an unwatered patch of grass.

I wonder whose job it is to clean them all up now. Better yet, I wonder if the same decorations will be used during the Paralympic Games…