The kids and I, along with another family alternate picking up trash along the truck route in front of our church. Yesterday was our day. The kids are not overly thrilled with the project but it needs to be done and it doesn't take very long. And it is a great for us to serve together as a family.
It amazes me that people are such slobs. We pick up bottles, candy wrappers and Styrofoam. Plastic grocery bags, straws and broken pieces of plastic that came from who knows what. Soda bottle tops, cigarette packages and cardboard. All of which is just thrown on the side of the road.
But, the most amazing thing to me is the number of cigarette butts out there. Tons and tons. It would take a week of picking up nothing but those to get the shoulder of the road remotely trash free. I didn't think that many people even smoked anymore. Is it because cars don't come with ashtrays??
Another thing that has been kind of interesting is that people don't always slow down when going past us. I keep the smaller kids away from the road so they are no where near the traffic. The last time hubby had one of his shift partners just kind of sit on the side of the road for a little while just to kind of slow everybody down.
One guy in a big black SUV went flying by. It was so obvious he was speeding even while we were on the side of the road. With the deputy car sitting there. The deputy ended up pulling him over. I am not sure how that ended up.
Yesterday was a beautiful day. And now the front of our church looks a little bit nicer. And the kids and I did a little something to help somebody else. Not bad for a little service project . . .
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