Watch your step
If you take a walk along the beautiful Kennebec River Rail Trail these days, you'd better look down, as well around, as you go. Or you might be in for a surprise, or two, or three.
Dog poops!
Apparently dog owners and their faithful pets are being less than diligent about cleaning up after themselves along the trail. And that has created quite a doggie-poop minefield through which trail users must navigate or else suffer the smelly consequences on their shoes.
No need of that.
Solution?
Well, common sense and a little courtesy would help. But I know that's often in short supply.
Dog owners: let's try this one. Let's say that maybe every darn one of us has to stop into Hannaford's or Shaw's or somewhere to buy groceries on say, a weekly basis. And that when we emerge from the store, we probably have in our hands or cart quite a few little plastic grocery bags. Useful bags. Now let's say that over the course of time you find that these bags accumulate to overflowing in your pantry and you just can't figure what to do with all of them.
Ahah!
Because you have hundreds of these bags, you discover that by taking one or two with you each time you walk your pet along the Kennebec River Rail Trail, you can easily and quite sanitarily clean up after Rover has done his or her business. You then put said used bag into your pocket and saunter on.
Problem solved.
Oh yeah, then there's the other problem along the trail: vandalism.
I have a super-low tolerance for vandals, those cretins who defile and destroy public and private property at a whim for no damn good reason, other than they have a slow leakage of brain fluid from the back of their cranial vault.
Heavy foot and bike traffic along the trail, any trail, usually helps to minimize vandalism. But it seems they always find a time and a place to do their dirty deeds.
I can't say here what I'd like to see done to any vandals that get caught. Unfortunately, most don't, but occasionally...
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