The Reaction Was Worth Everything
When I moved from home I did the same. Every year I leave two or three cans for the collectors. Sometimes I put a card with them thanking them for what they do.
Yesterday I left a couple of cans for each of the collectors, one the garbage and the other the recycle bin driver. Both had cards with them as per usual with thank you notes and wishes for a Happy New Year inscribed inside. But it was somehow different.
The garbage came and went without my noticing it but the recycle driver stopped for some time in the front. I watched him from the doorway and saw him brush his eyes as though a tear had formed there. After a while I thought I would go out but he was just driving off when he spotted me and waved tooting his horn in thanks.
It is such a little thing to do but it obviously touches these people deeply. In my mothers day it was common to see a bottle or two on top of people's cans for the collectors and one by the letter boxes for the posties, but I never see it now, except my own offerings.
Why can't we say thank you to these men who give us a wonderful service throughout the year and usually work on major holidays to keep us hygienically clean of filth? Why are they taken so much for granted? They are no different to the rest of us and being shown they are appreciated by those they serve is a small reward indeed.
Recently a garbage strike in Naples saw garbage pile up in the streets for months on end. I think it is still there because the Mafia is in control of the counsels and they refuse to clean it. The stench and threat of disease has made this city an abomination.
In countries where there are no collections the hygiene is just not there. Poverty and disease are rife and people suffer. Surely this is something we should not take for granted and for the men who do this thankless job their reaction to a little gift of thanks is well worth the effort.
Don't you agree?
I don't know if this is the right place to post this thread but to me it is a mind thing. Thought for others and rewards where they are not expected return something to us as well. Give to others and the world gives back. So lets give to others and see what happens. What do you say?
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