Here’s a story of one gallant lady going beyond the call of duty while making the best of being confined to a wheelchair. Mary, being fully aware of a personal responsibility for cleaning up after her dog, takes it upon herself to dispose of all the poop that she and her canine companion pass along the way while taking their daily stroll and roll throughout the neighborhood.
Equipped with a surplus of plastic grocery bags, every time Mary wheels past a pile, dog Buddy in tow, she covers her hand with a bag and proceeds to pick up a pile and plop the load into a larger bag attached to her wheelchair. Thus, the process is repeated with all the piles that are passed along the way.
If joggers, walkers, able-bodied people in wheelchairs, as well as anyone else who desires to help clean up our neighborhoods, were to tour the city streets once a week equipped with a litter picker-upper, (otherwise known as a grabber) and clean debris from the vicinity in which they live, how clean the city could be.
For many years of my life, having driven golf carts around the neighborhoods where I lived, I regularly patrolled the terrain, oftentimes with a horse in tow. Equipped with my litter picker upper, any rubbish was cleaned up that might be along the way. It only takes a small contribution on a regular basis to make a big difference on the planet, in our lives and the lives of others.
Andrea Cronrod