People are weird!

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I’m sure I have said this before, but the things people do never fail to surprise me. This morning I walked to the bus stop with Little One, then as I started to walk back a woman hurried past me. I think she was rushing to catch a bus – unfortunately the regular service bus had just left and the school bus was currently at the stop. Anyway it was raining and she was wheeling a shopping trolley and carrying a bunched up umbrella in her hand. She must have decided that the umbrella wasn’t worth keeping because just before she passed me she chucked the umbrella on the ground as she hurried to the bus stop! (And no she didn’t accidentally drop it, it was the only thing she had in her hand and she quite deliberately threw it down). I was taken aback because for one thing she was in late middle age, you would think she would know better by now. And our village is generally pretty tidy, it isn’t the kind of place where people routinely throw litter everywhere. And apart from that there is a litter bin at the bus stop! Well of course I picked it up. It’s one of those multi-folding ones that fold up small enough to fit in a bag. A couple of the flimsy struts were bent but they weren’t actually broken and the metal is so pathetic I was able to bend them back into shape. Still, better than nothing. If a visitor gets caught in a sudden downpour we will be able to give them an umbrella to get home with! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2025.