Now that the new students’ mommies have left town, who will clean up after them when they drink through the night at local parks and leave trails of crushed beer cans and empty bags of fried pork skins in their wake?

Me for one, it seems. It’s impossible not to feel compelled to be a good citizen and pick up some of the scraps of trash left about town. Though it’s also impossible to pick up everything in your path, because there’s too damn much of it. It makes no sense that people can’t pick up their own waste and drop it in a can only a few steps away. Baffling.

I know, let’s go chug a 40oz of Bud at the church!

And sit around in a pile of slate, eat fried pork skins and wash it down with Milwaukee’s Best.

I filled up this 24 box to bulging with empty cans, broken glass and various bits of plastic. Exiting the path from the gorge, there were a few maintenance guys who had just finished mowing the lawn and were sitting around in their truck. They had pushed a pile of garbage aside while mowing, so I picked that up too while they watched. I think they were just going to leave it behind since there aren’t even garbage cans around at the trailhead, which obviously there should be. It certainly doesn’t encourage people to carry garbage out.

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