Mothers Day and Thoughts Of Flowers and Accidents
Mothers Day today. The weather is at last getting a little warmer, the daffodils and crocuses are adding splashes of colour to the grey outlook. Spring will be here soon.
Drove out of town today to my daughter's house as I was invited to lunch. I went by my usual route which takes me past the scene of a fatal traffic accident that happened at the beginning of February. I really dislike the current craze for leaving flowers and gifts at accident scenes. There were bouquets of flowers tied to a lamp post at the accident scene but, as several weeks have passed by, the flowers have died, the paper wrappers are deteriorating in the wind and rain and bits of plastic wrapping flap miserably in the breeze. It just turns a sad scene into a grim untidy spectacle. There is another accident site on my way to the supermarket. A young man was killed a couple of months ago. There were masses of flowers tied to the railings at this site but again the flowers have died and the wrappers are a mess. I don't know why people think it appropriate to leave helium-filled balloons and soft toys at places like this but they do. We are left with torn wrapping paper, deflated balloons and grubby soggy stuffed animals, the whole thing looks like a macabre tableau which is totally lacking in dignity. I wish this fashion had not caught on.
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Drove out of town today to my daughter's house as I was invited to lunch. I went by my usual route which takes me past the scene of a fatal traffic accident that happened at the beginning of February. I really dislike the current craze for leaving flowers and gifts at accident scenes. There were bouquets of flowers tied to a lamp post at the accident scene but, as several weeks have passed by, the flowers have died, the paper wrappers are deteriorating in the wind and rain and bits of plastic wrapping flap miserably in the breeze. It just turns a sad scene into a grim untidy spectacle. There is another accident site on my way to the supermarket. A young man was killed a couple of months ago. There were masses of flowers tied to the railings at this site but again the flowers have died and the wrappers are a mess. I don't know why people think it appropriate to leave helium-filled balloons and soft toys at places like this but they do. We are left with torn wrapping paper, deflated balloons and grubby soggy stuffed animals, the whole thing looks like a macabre tableau which is totally lacking in dignity. I wish this fashion had not caught on.
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