183. A Cleaner River (1)
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The three brothers were sitting on their boat,
a few beers and talking about the good
days. As they talked, they watched the trash
by on the St. James River. Their conversation
to the trash.
“It didn’t use to be
this,” said Manny. “Remember how we used to
swimming in this river? I wouldn’t put my
toe in this river nowadays. There’s no telling
disease you’d catch. Time was when people knew
trash went into trash cans. Nowadays, the streets,
woods, the public parks, and the lakes and
are just huge trash cans without lids.”
“Not
mention the freeways—last night on the radio they
a refrigerator in lane one and a washing
in the middle of an off-ramp,” said Moe. “
almost every day drivers have to dodge mattresses,
, and tires on the freeways. And what about
the graffiti on the freeway signs?”
They all
that slobs were making America ugly. Then Jack
an idea. “Look, since we’re all retired and
have the time and energy, why don’t we
something instead of just complaining? We can't clean
everything, but maybe we could clean up our
.” They liked this idea, and talked about it
another couple of weeks. Manny suggested a name
their effort—the Green Fleet, an organization devoted to
the St. James River blue again.
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