Civil Disobedience, Part One, May 13, 2021

My first intentional act of civil disobedience: I placed a huge amount of trash outside a Tim Horton's restaurant. It wasn't my trash, still... The protest was a bust. A) Though it looked good in the garage, the display was hardly impressive on that large grass bank, and B) Two grandfathers watched me do it, inspected it immediately afterwards, and apparently mobilized a team to clean it up. I wish they hadn't. I wanted lots of people to see it first. Oh, well. Will plan differently for next display. I'm not worried - it takes no time at all to collect the junk, there's plenty of it.

He probably thought he was doing something good - cleaning up after a mad person. Too bad. He's obviously not the sort to throw his trash out the window. So - he should also be outraged by this.

And I have to say, that after years of working in healthcare, dealing with vomit, sputum, excrement and all manner of bodily fluids, nothing prepared me for the grotesque details of this trash - people fill these cups with gross stuff, put the plastic lid on, and throw it all into nature. It is F***ing Distressing!

Here's my beautiful morning drive to get there:

And the collection in the garage.

Gross, gross, gross. The clear plastic cups don't take well to being threaded to others. Many of them had to be put in the blue bin. But think about this: had they found the correct garbage receptacle, most of these cups would be land fill. And this is the tiniest tip of the iceberg.