Wednesday, October 14, 4998

work. Among other .

things, that means I’m out
at the bus stop in the early
morning enjoying the sunrise
and having a little time to let
my mind wander where it will.

Unfortunately, right beside

the stop | usually use, some-
one has seen fit to empty his
ash-tray onto the road. He
must be a heavy smoker be-
cause there dozens of butts

if usually take the bus to

cle, which might have en-
tailed getting out of the vehi-

this up. That someone, a Sid-~
ney employee no doubt, will
be paid for cleaning up some-
one else’s mess and the bill
will come to, among others,

” to my-seat (I'm not at my best
os. that early) I found that some |
-. clown had scrawled a mes- ~

» front of me. It was in favor of”

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‘the system, not ourselves.”
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= ‘anarchy but the writer obvi.

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“friends beside Royal Oak Burial Park.

Again, someone at the bus
company is going to get paid

its service including, in this -
case, the writer of the mes-
sage and me. J resent having
to pay to clean this stupidity
off the seat.

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intelligence (or lack thereof)
is probably its own reward.
‘There may be ways to fight
the system, if that's what you

‘want to do, but sending your-

self and the others you are
trying to motivate the bill for
doing so strikes me as being
singularly dumb.
Besides, 1 can think of bet-
ter ways to spend my money
than cleaning up after igno-
rant people.

beside the curb. They lie ‘And that's the point. One
there just a few feet from. definition of the word van-
one of the many garbage re- dal in my dictionary is an ig- im
ceptacles the Town has norant damager of property. . S epe VCO t cs. I ) Y-
placed around for our use. Whether this damage is Mr. Leonard
I guess using the recepta- . willful, such as the graffiti

on the bus, or careless, such

"as emptying the ashtray on

cle and even walking a few to clean that message off the the road, it is an ignorant act. G .

steps, was just too much trou- seat. Quite apart from such con- weaters by:

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will come around and clean - costs along to those who use of these acts are both ugly

and costly and the irony is
that in most cases the bills --
come back, in one way or an-

other to the perpetrator. They

also, of course, accrue to the

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