We stopped preparing our lunch, opened the door, and asked the gentleman what he was spraying on the ground."I'm killin' weeds," was his response.
We were aghast. We may be monkeys here at Monkey Muck HQ but even we know that spraying toxic crap on plants to kill weeds is bad in the short and long term for our planet. The poisons kill the weeds but then they also leach into the ground, spread among other plants and the underground insects, and end up in the water table. Now at some point some one is going to drink that water and they will ingest that poison again, so it's just bad all around. We told him not to spray around our condo, oops we mean our HQ, especially since we grow herbs that we use on our foods.
The slack jawed yokel said that he did not spray his toxic sludge in pots, so it was okay.
We were polite but insistent. "Please don't spray that stuff anywhere in front of our place," we told him with a grim smile. "We keep the weeds down out here by pulling them out."
The smug sprayer said, "Oh, you missed that Virginia Creeper and poison ivy by the way." He gave us a menacing look and waved his nozzle at us in a threatening manner.
We wanted to make it our wishes crystal clear so we said to him, "Please, don't spray that stuff in front of our condo." He sneered and snapped, "This stuff is safer than salt."
Thinking that maybe he was hard of hearing, we said in a loud yet still polite voice, "DON'T SPRAY THAT STUFF ON ANYTHING IN THE FRONT OR IN THE BACK OF THIS CONDO."
That seemed to do the trick and the pugnacious purveyor of plant poisons petered off.
While we were happy that we prevented one act of eco-terrorism,
we wondered how many of you out there still use herbicides, pesticides, and toxic "fertilizers."
We're not threatening you or anything, but we just wanna say that if we catch any of you using that crap, we will open a big ol' can of monkey whoop ass on you.
No comments:
Post a Comment