Ripping the acropolis a new one

About the only reason one travels to Athens is to go to the Acre (edge) Polis (city) and look at the ruins but to get there one must go through Athens, a city planned by Satan, and which city is an all out assault upon dignity, decorum, and humanity and its takes only about ten minutes being there before one is tempted to join in with the other residents, standing at a crosswalk cursing, scowling and gesturing angrily.

The city itself is devoid of any beauty, charm, warmth, romance, or permanence and it is one of the ugliest cities on the planet. Almost every building is a concrete square or rectangle spiked with all manner of garish antenna, satellite dish, or cell phone tower.

Crap and graffiti were all over the city and the conversation level of that hell hole is pitched to a point where the sound of a jack hammer run through The Who's mammoth Marshal Amps would not have caused the troubled tourist to miss one syllable of the resident's angry curses.

On vacation, ABS and The Bride often just go to a store to buy the local wine, meat, bread, and cheese to eat on a balcony but every balcony in this hotel faced the devils' development in the form of a concrete house whose occupiers had hung out their laundry and dead pets to dry in the ceaseless sun. 

The acropolis bore several signs detailing how the Greek government, since the 19th century, had royally screwed-up in attempting repairs to some of the structures on that marble mountain and every attempt at a repair had resulted in more damage done.

The plain and simple truth is that those ancient ruins, thousands of years old, are the sole reason anyone goes to that crummy dump and modern Athens is proving itself incompetent in keeping those ruins in existence and were it not for the money resulting from tourism their crummy economy would be even worse than it is.

And if the tourists stop coming, what will happen to the subway pick pocket gangs from Albania? Will they have to go home and find jobs?

I hope this is not too churlish