Perfect sunny Sunday, with temperature just above 10C, so Ranger and I walked down Dolby Hill Road (it used to be Dobie Hill, but the sign writers - surprise, surprise - misspelled it) to #7 Highway, then up to the Post Office, then back to West Jeddore Road and home.
What is wrong with people? The side roads were not too bad, but the side of the highway was littered with a sea of jetsam from the passing cars. A small sample of what we saw along the kilometre and a half of highway that we travelled (and, yes, I counted!):
3 26oz rum bottles,
1 26oz vodka bottle,
3 26oz miscellaneous alcohol bottles,
5 12oz liquor bottles,
8 beer cans,
3 beer bottles,
6 soft drink cans,
12 Tim Horton coffee cups,
16 other throwaway cups,
6 styrofoam fast food containers,
3 car oil plastic bottles,
4 car additive plastic bottles,
2 used condoms,
3 roaches,
over one hundred cigarette butts,
too many plastic bags of various sorts to count,
several small plastic bags full of garbage,
and a huge assortment of stuff that I was unable to recognise.
I really do not believe that this is sustainable. As the population grows, our average IQ seems to shrink, and with it our sense of environmental responsibility. What are the people who throw this stuff out of their cars thinking? First of all, the beer cans and alcohol bottles, together with the roaches, would indicate that a lot of people are driving impaired, and then there are the condoms! It would seem to me that, if you are going to use a condom in a car, you would at least pull off the road, and stop the car, and not just use it while driving. It is just wrong to multitask while having sex! Focus.
Consume, consume, consume, and then, of course, just throw it away. Who cares, right?
Sigh.
Oh, despite all of the above, Ranger and I had a good walk, and felt better for it, at least physically. Mentally? Well perhaps that's another rant.
