Five nappies, that’s the count so far this year. Disgusting.
It is not uncommon, for example, to find plastic bottles,
lolly wrappers, thongs, bathers, socks and underpants left by lazy beach goers,
then there’s the bits of rope, timber and plastic blown in from offshore, but
nappies? Who? Why? Well, settle back, I have a list of possibles.
The first type to leave a nappy I call the “the lazy
bugger”. This is a person who trundles off to the beach heavily laden with all
kinds of junk to enhance their sea-side experience and when it’s time to leave
they just up and leave with whatever they have in their hands.
Then there is the “hard of sight” type who has good
intensions but when they rise to leave they can only see what they can see and
that they collect. Nappies being flesh coloured can easily get lost in sand. Okay,
I’m being kind here, because if this were so then how the hell does an old bloke
with one dodgy eye spot them?
To be fair, I must include what I call the “good and fair”
beach-goer who simply misses the filthy thing sitting on the sand and would, if
their memory served them well, return later to the same spot to collect the
offending parcel. This may well have happened and if it did, I would, of
course, not see the bundle because it would no longer be there.
Finally, the type I call, simply, the "prick". This person says to him or herself: I’m not
picking up that. Leave it for the council workers. Yeah, sure, as if council
workers patrol the beach every day collecting rubbish.
No, we do, the regulars, the walkers, the beach lovers.
Perhaps the "prick" has heard of us and says: Leave it,
there’s an old bloke with a dodgy eye, comes by every day picking up crap.
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