Monday, August 30, 2004

A Short Thought on Respecting Property

The other evening, while returning home from my walk with the Iz, a bag of her scat in my hand, I strolled by the Catholic school not too distant from my house.  A local roofing company, in the course of repairing the school’s roof, had set up a 20 yard refuse container for, of course, the remains of old materiels stripped away in preparation for the new.

As I passed by the 20 yard container, I nonchalantly tossed the bag of Iz’s scat into the container.  No one witnessed this, and the scat, which wouldn’t have filled a sandwich bag, consumed an insignificant portion of the 20 yard container’s volume.

I’ve been considering this action, over the last few days, because when I nonchalantly tossed the bag into the roofing company’s 20 yard refuse container, I immediately knew that I shouldn’t have.  The container was not mine to utilize as I saw fit, even though my contribution to its contents was insignificant.

Posted by John Venlet on 08/30 at 03:28 PM
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