We where enjoying our drive to the market on our dusty half tarred road. In mum’s battered old Volkswagen truck to deliver our fresh harvest of yams and peas when it all started. Mum’s little snack attack, oh no l screamed, Mum don’t snack up yet, we have no place to bin your LITTER . The bush is good enough she replied why did God make it . This makes good manure anyway it’s only Banana peels.
l closed my eyes with both hands. l knew for once she starts her nibbles and munching all that snack packed foods and all it’s litter where going to be littered on the sides of road until we get to the market sadly there was already lots of litter lined out in the bush showing that all the Market travellers where just litter bugs tears welled up in my eyes just thinking how could all these people not care and just discard their litter off the pavements of the road like that without a care.
Even my Mum the number one litter bugger also did the same just threwing out her litter without a whims thought of binning her rubbish despite my relentless offer of an old recycled plastic bag which l kept at the pocket of my car seat as a litter bag and she would give a little giggle and say sorry child let’s bin it in the bush. It made me feel so sad for she did not just care about keeping our environment clean. tears welled up in my eyes, first she threw out the window three of her banana peels, then secondly all her crystal sweets paper wraps, also her orange peels which she threw after every peel to my annoyance she was just an old tatty litter bugger Oh no! and lastly her cigarettes stumps which actually started a veld fire she was just careless l wished l could be an Inspector Moss l could have fined her for life without litter bugging.
Her juice and water bottles she also discarded Out again l thought to myself mum needs to stop being a litter bug all the time l tried to be polite again and extended another of my old recycled plastic bags from the market which l had picked upto make another car bin for her but my mum rejected it.
I send out a little prayer to the fairies of the wilderness to kindly stop my mum from being a litter bug l don’t know if they heard me , for she won’t stop being a litter bug 🐝. Someone should help my mum from being a thoughtless litter bugger and she won’t stop