Prepare for a teeny rant
I was walking back from Morrisons this morning and looked back to see a kid throw a can into the river and laugh. There were three of them, two older kids, boy and girl, and a young child. It is impossible to tell, these days, whether or not they were siblings or parents and child - whatever, they were all laughing about throwing a can into the river. My first instinct was to get the older boy by his pasty throat and throw him in after the can. But I paused. What good would it do? I stared at them and they moved on, looking only slightly shifty as if they kind-of knew they had done something wrong but weren't sure what. Should I have challenged them?
I am up to challenge people - I stopped a van driver only a couple of days ago when he pulled in onto the pavement IN FRONT OF a guy with a white stick and dark glasses who was walking on the pavement. He denied it, despite me having watched him, appalled, from the other side of the road, helpless. And I challenged him, politely, with a smile (that didn't feel right!!) when he got out of the van, asking him if he had noticed the guy WITH A WHITE STICK AND DARK GLASSES in front of whom he had pulled onto the pavement next to double yellow lines opposite a junction and just before a pedestrian crossing. So I can challenge appropriately, but I am not sure what I should have done with the pasty young eejit throwing a can into the river. Answers on a postcard........
