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Some days you just gotta say something

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Published on Monday, 14 June 2010 05:00

Written by Paul Roy

I am going to stray just a bit from my usual attempt at humor (ok, I think I make an attempt at humor anyway) today and vent a little. Maybe vent isn’t the right word, let’s just say I will share my opinion. I came across this article today at Boston​.com about the lack of enforcement of the state’s littering laws. (see article here). However I think anyone who reads either this blog or comes to the Roadside Online website have one thing in common. We all love traveling the highways and byways of this great country of ours.

As I spend my days behind the dirty windshield, I don’t see less litter as this article states, but I seem to see more. It only appears as less because of the increased number of litter crews out on the roads. Something which shouldn’t even be necessary. In a time when we all complain about increased taxes, tolls and the like, how much do you suppose we would all save if it wasn’t necessary to pay someone to pick up after us?

I see it all the time, people tossing stuff out the window, instead of holding onto it until they get home. I can honestly say I never do that as anyone who has ever spent anytime in my tow truck can attest. At the end of my day, or mostly whenever I get out of my truck where there is a trash receptacle I throw my trash away. Pretty simple actually.

I am not a global warming advocate or a green nut, just someone who hates to see trash strewn all over the land. There is nothing worse than driving on one of our “Blue Highways” (as described in his book of the same name by William Least Heat Moon) and having a picturesque view spoiled by a shopping back form the local box store hanging in a tree.

Ok, I’ll jump off the soap box for now, just please try not to dump your trash. It isn’t that hard to do.

Thank-​you and you can send your tax deductible contributions to the Dirty Windshield Fund, we can only accept cash at this time.