Don’t you dare drop that paper cup, fast food bag, candy bar wrapper, empty bottle of water or receipt on the ground because it will all end up in my yard at some point in time.
Living behind a 24-hour grocery store I always have access to my favorite pastime – food. However, living behind a grocery store also has disadvantages. Besides smelling fried chicken from the deli 24/7, I also get a multitude of trash that all floats over to my yard.
This isn’t just trash from the grocery store though. This is fast food wrappers, newspapers, drink cups – anything and everything people toss out their car windows.
The trash then floats over to my yard, thanks to the brisk Nebraska wind. The trash gets caught in the mower, gets stuck to my shoes and scares the living daylights out of my cat when it rustles by the windows.
When I drag out the mower in a month or so I will have to sweep the yard for trash. Everybody else’s trash.
Now I’m not usually a stickler when it comes to things like this. In fact, I don’t even care if a dog poops on my lawn – I just think of that as fertilizer. However, the trash from other people cannot be used as fertilizer so therefore it makes me angry.
Because I have spent countless hours outside cleaning up after other careless people I ask everyone one thing. Hang on to your paper cup, fast food bag, candy bar wrapper, empty bottle of water and receipt until you get home. Trash cans are 97 cents. Buy one and use it.
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