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Old 11-28-2012, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by skip0358 View Post
There's no need to get nasty. All we ALL need to do is to be more careful and if we see someone being sloppy we need to correct them. I've said earlier that there are both paid people cleaning up and walkers who do cleanup on their morning walks. Is TV a dump site absolutely NOT, it's just an increase in trash being dropped on the roadside,parking lots,trails,pools and squares. We all need to police ourselves and others including the contractors. No one group is or should be blamed.
I don't think that things are one iota different than the first day we set foot on this place five years ago. There was cigarettes thrown down then and cigarettes thrown down now. I would no more confront someone who did it as fly and would NEVER do it myself. When we have a holiday week like Thanksgiving when everyone has family here, then you see more debris and pop cans and stuff but it is NEVER, never a BIG problem. I am so proud of this wonderful place that I have stopped my cart many times if I am not being closely followed to pick up some obvious trash.

It is as close to perfect as it can get and it isn't awful now or in the time I have been here. We are all so proud of it and it is carefully taken care of.

We cannot change people's poor habits by making them mad. So why waste your breath confronting them. That is asking for trouble and it certainly is not the way I was brought up.
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