IT'S ALL ABOUT THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX!

 

Tonight, I went back to the area that I cleaned yesterday, and I smiled when I saw it was still clean.  So I continued where I left off.

Under the bushes, I found a kitchen chair with two legs missing, and two boxes of rotting food.  Ick!  Why?

I pulled the chair out, and it was so heavy.  I could have left it there and hoped somebody else stronger than me would pick it up, but I know better than that.

So I got creative with my handy dandy trash cart (I love my trash cart!) and I put the boxes on the trash can and wedged the chair on top so it would it would keep the boxes from falling off.  The handle of my cart went right through the back of the chair.

I was so pleased!  I had to walk quite a distance to the dumpster.  I never could have carried all that.  

I threw the chair in the empty dumpster, and it sounded like a bomb going off!  That was kinda fun!

I picked up 1,955 pieces of trash tonight and covered a lot of area and made a lot of new friends.

One teenager asked me, "Are you famous?"  I said, "Maybe."  He said, "Are you on Tik Tok?  How many followers do you have?"

That's where our conversation ended.

At the corner of Arlington & Barbara, I saw this little stand that a dad made for his kids.  Isn't it adorable?  They sell potato chips, candy and cold drinks, and I know they do really well, because that's where all the trash on Barbara is coming from!  I picked up hundreds of candy wrappers and potato chip bags and pop cans!

We had a nice conversation, and he showed me his trash grabber.  The ground around this little stand was free of trash, but people who were buying his goods were leaving a trail all the way up the street.

Yikes!   I wish he would tell every patron to throw the wrappers and cans in a trash can.

At the end of the day, I saw all of them pushing this heavy wooden structure up the road.  It was on wheels, but it was still heavy.  I have to give this family a lot of credit.  Those kids will learn a lot of lessons with their little "business."