If you read my previous blog, you'll know that I can't bear things needlessly being thrown away. But it never fails to amaze me how, for many shops (but not all), my desire to take their rubbish away, or empty their skip for them a little is at best a little suspect, and at worst, just too much bother. It's so disheartening. I even began to question, "Do we really distrust people so much?"
But you know, when I do meet someone who helps me out, they shine and I'm eternally greatful.
There's the girl at the electrical store who checked all the boxes for me for foam sponge. When she found none, she remembered that she had a small square at home and brought it in for me the very next day.
The bike shop guy who went out the back and unwrapped bikes so that I could have the foam.
And today, I was SO chuffed to meet a shop assistant who was not only good enough to let me through the back of the store, out to rummage around the skip, but was keen as mustard to get in amongst it and help pull out plastic strapping, wrapping and packaging. Hurrah!
So here's to them, for shining out and for keeping even more stuff from the big 'ole dump.
SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA TRUST
I know we live in a time of suspicion due to terrorism etc, but let's not let that get in the way of embracing mad-cap ideas and flights of fancy. If someone has a weird request, it might genuinely mean that they're up to something, or a bit cuckoo. Or, it might just be that they've had one of those mad-as-a-tree, left-of-kilter ideas that just has to be tried out for a laugh. And if you help them, their life, and yours could be that bit richer for it.