HILLMOMBA, ONE BIG PUBLIC DUMP
That's what people use it for, you know. That's why most of our unwanted visitors stop here. Still no news on that furniture in a white truck. Haven't seen it along the gravel road. But yesterday, we got a Christmas tree!
I know. It's kind of early for a Christmas tree. There are still 352 days until Christmas!
Oh, wait a minute. Maybe this was a USED Christmas tree. I get it now. Nobody was delivering a present to the residents of Hillmomba! They were using us as a GARBAGE DUMP! Getting rid of their old Christmas tree! As if most communities don't have a designated time and place to do that. Or, if you live in the woods anyway, you might...oh...I don't know...PUT THAT TRASH IN YOUR OWN BACK YARD!
It's not like they dumped it in the creek, to create habitat for fish. That's what the town does, you know. They collect the trees, and put them in the lake. One year it was frozen over, and they laid on top of the ice for several weeks. But these folks just jettisoned their Ol' Tannenbaum along the side of our gravel road. On land that is marked with purple paint, AND a No Trespassing sign, which both signify...wait a minute...it's coming to me...NO TRESPASSING!
"Oh, Mrs. HM," you might say. "It's JUST a tree. In the woods. What's so bad about that?"
Well. If you owned a unicorn farm, and people dumped a dead unicorn in your pasture, would you feel the same way?
What, exactly, is WRONG with people today?
There's a story that in early January, somebody returned their dead (and used) Christmas tree to Costco. They got their money back.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you could drive that tree to the nearest Costco and try the same thing...
Shall we give them the benefit of doubt and say that tree just accidentally rolled off the back of their truck?
ReplyDeleteIt is wrong to just dump stuff like that, especially on private property.
Having to get rid of a dead tree each year is the biggest reason I know to always have an artificial tree. Just pack it away each January and get it out again in December. Think of the dollars you'll save not buy a tree each year!
Don't be so quick to accuse; the tree may have walked there, got tired & laid down!!
ReplyDeleteSioux,
ReplyDeleteHeh, heh! Then if we could only entice MORE people to dump their trees here...
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River,
Maybe, after they balanced it right on the side, and then slammed on the brakes!
Having always lived in the country, and growing up with a grandma who owned a Christmas tree farm...I've never paid for one, and used to love the smell of it when first cut. We just tossed it down in our own woods when done, or burned it on a bonfire.
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fishducky,
It's the RETIRED teacher in me: accuse first, figure out the details later.