Keep Your “Trash” in Your Car (KYTY.C)

By Dr. J. Ester Davis

I love a beautiful day.  Even better is a lovely drive on a perfectly lovely day.  When and at what point is a decision made to trash our roads and highways? What planet do you live on? We grumble, gripe and complain about construction, etc. . . and as soon as it is over and smooth sailing is upon is, we trash it.

Couple weeks I was enjoying a drive from Arlington back into Dallas after taping a very necessary show.

The bluebonnets were sprayed all over the highways, the traffic was acting like it had some sense and moving at a gracious speed.  It seemed as though everybody on the highway had just washed their vehicles. Drivers were styling their new Spring sunshades.  Things were going really well.   And all of a ‘sudden’ the mood changed.   Everybody decided to throw their ‘trash’ out of their vehicles.  And in the middle of the day, these were full grown adults.

Now, this is going to be one of the shortest articles I have ever  written.  This article is self-explanatory and this article is ‘necessary’.  And this article is directly to the point.   Why are we throwing trash out of our vehicles?  If it is your trash, keep it in your car and place it in your recycle/non recycle trash cans.  There were approximately five vehicles within a mile that just opened the window and let their trash fly out.  I was actually adjacent to a driver, that acknowledged my presence in the next lane and then slightly ahead of me dunks a piece of trash out of that beautiful car.

Being the ever consonant journalist that I am, I started a day survey.  Arriving into the downtown area, the trash survey was pretty sane.   Continuing on I-30 and able to pick up speed again, this ‘soap-opera-saga’  continues.  Trash all over our essential highways smothering the bluebonnets.

Trash ultimately ends up in our rivers and oceans.  There is now what the scientist call  ‘a floating island of trash’ in the Pacific Ocean.  This stretch is now 600,000 square miles. I know. . . we can do better.

I simply do not understand why we will put a state-of-the-art security system in our homes for protection and a double system from front-to-back in our cars for protection. . . and then throw trash on the ground and road these two precious possessions  reside on.  Think about it!

Keep your trash in your car.   We all reside on Planet Earth.  And the protection of same is up to the people that call it home.

Thanks. . . to the ‘Living Legends’ Committee for the  award last week.   Join Valder Beebe, Linda Amerson and I Sunday, May 6, 2018, for the Aquarius Award, Adele Foster, CEO, Aquarius Magazine-Atlanta.com, @Hamilton Park UMC, 3:00PM.