I was
working my office and happened to glance out the window when I saw a young guy,
maybe in his 30s, casually toss an empty cup from his car to the ground. I
watched it slid underneath his vehicle. And for whatever reason I just thought,
that is so wrong what are you doing? This is a residential street. And forget
if it was residential or commercial or anywhere for that matter. Your garbage is
your garbage. Please, what were you thinking tossing it out casually onto the
street? Perhaps you thought the next person who walked by pick up your garbage
or maybe you just think that the planet is one big garbage pail. To my
amazement, I got up my computer, went down tmy staircase through my front door
and then went through the gate out onto the sidewalk and very casually I shout
out that it seems the cup have rolled underneath his car. And I walked away up,
towards my own car which was parked several houses down from where I live. I
was pretending I was on a mission. He grumbled a little bit and I didn’t say
anything else. He looked like a nice enough guy dressed in some sports gear,
more like somebody off to play rugby or football. I came back to my place and
didn’t say anything else but went to work on some flowers that were on my
staircase. A short while after, I looked across and he was no longer at his
vehicle and the cup that had rolled underneath his car was gone. I’m grateful
that he decide to pick it up because he could’ve been a total jerk about it but
also astonished that he would do it in the first place. But he knows maybe the
cup is still there, and he just moved it to another part of the street to be a
jerk. I hope not that’s my rant for the day. Please don’t toss your garbage out.
Better yet bring your own cup stop buying all the waste. Yes I know it’s
convenient, but be kind to yourself and be kind to the planet.
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