Feb 21 2009
Country Lanes
Country lanes should always look like the one in the picture. Unfortunately, there are some people in this world (city-folk usually) who think that any country lane just begs to have trash dumped on it.
It is beyond my comprehension (and that’s a big word for me), why any human thinks that their trash would be more at home sitting beside a country road than out in the city dump, where it would have the company of lots of other city trash.
Last week we found a recliner sitting near the turn-around for the school bus. Had it not rained all night on the chair, someone might have picked up the poor stray and taken it home. Instead, one of the men from the local hunting club put a “For Sale” sign in the seat of the chair. (There were no takers.)
Not only do we find chairs, but couches, televisions, lamps, boxes of clothing, etc. If the people who do the dumping would only contribute a couple boxes of food, we could set up housekeeping for some homeless person.
I shouldn’t even get on the subject of the other things that people dump on our road. Cats and dogs show up on occasion, and though I am an animal lover, there is a limit to the number I can bring home.
If it were possible, I would mount cameras in the trees at all the tempting dump sites. I would find the “dumpsters” in their homes, then in the dark of night when they were sound asleep, I would bring a truck load of the stuff I have to keep cleaning out of my chicken house, and put it right at their front door. Then I think I would attach a note ” If I have to put up with your s_ _ _ , then you have to put up with mine!”
You are a riot! We too have people who leave their unwanted items at the side of the road. Most of this stuff they could have given to Goodwill or, in the case of an old refrigerator, had the Gas & Electric company give them $50 for it and cart it away for free.
You have a good approach. I’d love to hear that someone had dumped your surplus chicken fertilizer in the poacher’s yard.
Marilynne