People have stuff/annoyances happen to them all the time. Somehow, these things happen to me more than most, oooorrrrr maybe I just notice them more. Either way, I almost always find them funny.....
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
"Filthydelphia", possessive trash, and poop
So, I went to some Tile Place
with a friend
on Washington
and 15th Street
In Philly
Got out of the car,
And stepped into a sh*t-pile
Of everything
That every person who
Has ever lived in Philly
Owns.
They just dumped it.
There.
On the sidewalk
Bottles, broken glass,
Cups, cigarettes, ketchup packets,
Cheetos, plastic bags, a seashell.
And I couldn't even handle it.
So I did my random act of kindness
For today.
I went to the Tile Store
and asked for a trash bag.
He looked at me funny look,
But gave it to me.
The gloves that I keep in my bag
ripped when I put them on.
(Always prepared:
I still carry them around
from my years at Bancroft)
So, I went to Dunkin Donuts
And asked them for gloves
to clean up the trash.
The counter workers
(not one American),
all gathered around me
and wanted to know
"What trash?"
I said the trash in the street.
They asked:
"What trash in the street?"
I said "I don't know,
the trash in the street,
the trash in the street"
Because if you say something twice
It has more impact.
So they gave me gloves.
And I walked around
And picked up safe trash.
No glass.
Nothing that looked like anybody's
mouth had been on it.
And I filled the bag about halfway.
But I stopped when I got
To a pile of poop.
People poop.
Seriously?
So I turned around, and brought
the bag to the girl
who was outside Dunkin Donuts
cleaning, and sweeping
up the trash around there.
I said "Here you go!"
She asked what it was.
I said "it's trash."
She shook her head,
she didn't want it.
I said, "It's trash,
right here,
trash from in front of your store,
I'm doing your job for you,
trash, it's trash."
She said no.
I smiled, took my gloves off,
plopped the bag of trash on top
of her sweepy broom thing anyway.
Then turned around and left.
So if you go to the Dunkin Donuts
On Washington Ave
Be wary.
They're possessive of their trash.
They don't want you to pick it up for them.
If you do clean it up anyway,
don't put it in their dumpsters.
And watch out that you don't step in people poop.
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