The Litter Bugs Across the Street

Posted on November 11, 2007
Filed Under Complaints, Cornwall, Main |

We, as well as our neighbors across the street, live at the very end of a street and so have no one on one side of us.  We love it, as we can almost imagine that we’re alone.  We’re loners, really. 

I was standing at the kitchen sink yesterday, washing some dishes, when I noticed the neighbors across the street pull into their driveway.  The man got out and went to unlock the front door.  Then I watched the woman get out of the car holding what looked like a small white cloth.  Perhaps a wipe or something.  She walked over to the fence that divides their property from the clearing beside it and then tossed the cloth over it.  She then went back to the car and started getting the shopping bags out.  She brought a couple of bags into the house, where they surely have their very own garbage can, and I could tell that the cloth that she threw over the fence never even crossed her mind again.

recycleWe’ve noticed that this couple doesn’t recycle, so we already had a low opinion of them.  Judgemental, I know, but who in their right minds doesn’t recycle nowadays when they have the facilities to do so?

I couldn’t believe what I’d just witnessed!  I wanted to go out there and rant at her.  It is SO out of order to be dropping garbage on the floor, especially if you at directly outside your own home.  I don’t even spit my gum out on the ground and I never, never drop any garbage on the ground.  Candy wrappers, scraps of paper, old receipts… nothing!  I put them into my pocket and bring them to my home garbage if I don’t find one sooner.

I don’t mean to sound so high and mighty but littering like that is just plain wrong.

Did I rush out to pick up the garbage she’d dropped?  No.  The wind was blowing strongly and I knew that the cloth would be at the next block by the time I got out there.  In fact, I watched it blow away.

A day later, I’m still seething about it though.

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