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From the porch
Normally, I am mild mannered and laid back. Most things that upset people aren't worth fuming over. After all, it only hurts the fumee (That would be me in this case.). There are many atrocities in the world and someone is always wronging someone else. I become angered and/or saddened when I hear of these events. However, when I am directly affected - when someone abuses me or anyone close to me - the anger becomes more hardened and focused. There is little traffic on the road that passes by our driveway. Yet, we still find food wrappers and fast food containers littering the side of the road. We periodically arm ourselves with trash bags and gloves and pick up along the road fronting our property as well as the property of nearby neighbors. That's bad enough. But a few weeks ago I discovered that someone had dumped a bunch of trash in the woods about 35 feet into our property. There is a place at that spot that allows a car to park or burn around. Discarded were clothes, jeans, shirts, underwear, boots, a life vest, pillows, a "Ford" cap and deteriorating magazines concerning hunting. It took me awhile and a number of doubled trash bags, but I cleaned up the mess on a recent Saturday. But all the while, I wondered about the person who dumped their trash on my property. Why did he/she do it? (All the clothes were male.) What's wrong with a dumpster? I wrote an article in last week's Sentinel about people dumping appliances, tires and furniture along Tatham Gap Road, part of the historic Trail of Tears. You see it in other parts of the county. Some people are too lazy to take their items to the landfill. (Appliances can be discarded free at the landfill). Instead, they hand their problem off to someone else. "I don't want to bother with my own trash. So I'll throw it on someone else's property - make it their problem," they might think. I'm not sure writing about this problem will change anything. I could probably write an article raving about it every week and it wouldn't change anything. As someone said to me, "These people who dump their trash on other people's property, they probably don't read newspapers anyway."
They probably don't read much of anything except the labels on their Budweiser cans.
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