What the??
Recycling Today is garbage day and as I was driving through the neighborhood this morning I noticed that a lot of my neighbors’ trash cans were overflowing with paper-based trash. Boxes, big sheets of cardboard, newspapers…etc. So there’s the garbage can at the curb stuffed to the brim while a city-issued recycling can is parked along the side of the house, empty. Why? You pay for recycling every month whether you use it or not, so why throw away something that can be recycled? I suspect it’s because most people have a plain old garbage can in their house, but few have a place for recyclables. And instead of taking the extra 20 seconds to walk a newspaper outside, it’s simply easier to toss it in the trash. *sigh* Crossing Guards My oldest daughter is in second grade. So for the better part of three years, I’ve been driving her to and from school every day. The same two women have manned the crosswalk since she started school and in all this time, I have never seen them with their mouths closed. They’re talking at the curb…talking while they walk across the street…shouting to each other while they stand in the street blocking traffic…. We have year-round school so there are only about six weeks in the year where school is not in session and the crossing guards would not be needed. So that’s twice a day, five days a week, 46 weeks in the year (give or take a few). What are these people possibly talking about? Who has that much to say? It boggles the mind. Or at least it boggles my mind. Pick-up Along those same lines, school gets out at 3:30. I have driven by on my way home from an errand and, I kid you not, there are people parked in the pick-up lane waiting for their kids as early as 2:45. 2:45! Don’t they have anything better to do than sit in a car for 45 minutes? Is it really that important to be first in line? Or can these children not wait one second while mom pulls up to the curb? I don’t even leave my house to get my daughter until 3:30 and by the time I reach school, the pick up lane is moving nicely and I can pull right up to the curb anyway. Without wasting almost an hour sitting in my car.
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May 2nd, 2006 at 11:10 am
I used to be able to walk to the school, pick up my kids, wait for them to dawdle for a while, check in with their teachers and make sure they’re behaving, and walk back home in less than 45 minutes.
I could probably STILL walk to the school and back in less than 45 minutes from my new house… But the kids would probably complain about having to walk that far.