Day 187
I have a question … well, actually I have a LOT of questions, but this one is forefront in my mind.
Why do some people think that the world is their garbage can?
I do NOT get it. I mean, seriously, I do not understand that mentality. I was out and about yesterday, driving and shopping, and maybe it was just etched into my brain after the initial visual so that I was more keenly aware of “things” … but I found it and find it disgusting.
I was walking into Home Depot (again … the 417th trip this summer) and watched a guy unwrap a cigarette package and toss the cellophane top to the wind. Like it was some bit of nastiness stuck to his fingers, he waved it off and it blew away into the parking lot.
Excuse me. I live here, too, and do NOT appreciate your cellophane flying off. Why did he think that was OKAY to do? Obviously there was no thought behind it – like a common thing for him to do -with no remorse.
And here’s another question: What is with the GUM? I am appalled by the amount of dead gum (for lack of a better word) on the sidewalks and streets around here. What is up with the gum?
Do people chew it for a few minutes and then get tired of it and just SPIT IT OUT, at random, wherever they are? And it sits on the sidewalks or roadways, melts down and turns into a big black spot of used, spit-out chicle. It’s everywhere. And I don’t know if it’s just a thing around here? Or if I was just more in tune to it the other day … but I don’t remember that being an issue in Colorado!
And, of course, there are those other questions that pop into my head. The one that always surfaces when I’m in Walmart … and it being … WHY? Only one word but so relative. I can walk around and ask that question at least 20 times during a fast trip in/out of that store … I won’t even go into the reasons for the question. You’ve been in Walmart. You know what I mean.
And why does fresh-cut grass smell so darned good? And why do Rice Krispies go snap, crackle and pop? And why, when the flooring in your house is 70% not carpeted do the dogs seek out the carpeted area to throw up on? And why is it that the one thing you went to the grocery store to get … is the one thing you forgot to come home with? And why does the air on some summer evenings smell like tadpoles? And why, for that matter, do almost all newborns look like Winston Churchill?
So many questions!
These are the questions that plague me. They hound me. And I think I need to go get a frappuccino and relax under some shady tree and put some serious thought to figuring out the answers.