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On my street the local council has recently cut down 5 trees and replaced them with 2 tiny saplings. One is doing well. And the other is currently being used by
by jspash 7y ago
On my street the local council has recently cut down 5 trees and replaced them with 2 tiny saplings. One is doing well. And the other is currently being used by some guy to hang his electric car charging cable!? I despair for humanity some times.
I bought this house 4 years ago and have since planted 5 trees on my property alone. And have convinced two neighbours to plant at least one.
- noja 7y ago> the other is currently being used by some guy to hang his electric car charging cable Have you spoken to him about this?
- altacc 7y agoSteady on, this is London we're talking about. A stern look and a slight shaking of the head is about as extreme as us Brits will go.
- noja 7y agoOkay, have you tutted at him?
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- jspash 7y agoNo I haven't. But I have half a mind to place a sternly worded letter on their windscreen! But what do you say? "Um. You shouldn't do that." Why? Because it's bad for the tree? "Have some respect for nature?" It's a difficult argument to support. "Don't be stupid, ya moron." is really what I'd like to say.
- noja 7y agoYou'd say that you both paid for that, and he's breaking it.
- lowdose 7y agoLife is to short to accept every disrupting element others introduce. Just ask him to come over here and look at something, then standing together on a 15 meter distance of the tree ask him wether his decorations add a useful element to the scenery. Unbox the most ugly Christmas decorations you find on ebay. And supply the man an additional set of extras so from now on he can go ahead with a more professional gear set. The machiavellian would record and post the prince glitter show on instagram and then burn $200 on instagram ad boost to a selective postal code area. Next time your British nod will have super powers.
- nashashmi 7y agoSo ... What's wrong with hanging a cable on a tree? If that question gets you angry, maybe you shouldn't talk to him. But if you were more willing to INFORM than Correct, you'd be more gentle.
- 205guy 7y agoAs I get older (late 40’s) I find myself much more prone to speaking to people about incivilities such as this or littering, etc. Maybe I’m just starting to be a grumpy old man (get off my lawn), but I try to be polite and appeal to the greater good, not confrontational or preachy. Also, one of the most rewarding things you can do is volunteer to plant trees in your city. At least in the US, cities often partner with local organizations for the manpower to plant and care for new trees. When I lived in San Jose, CA, my wife and I planted 3 trees one weekend along with a group who planted over 20 on 2 streets. The city provided the trees and fertilizer, the group provided the tools, and the volunteers did the digging and planting. We lived several blocks away and would go water the trees every week during the first few months to get them rooted. Almost 20 years later, we still go out of our way to visit “our” trees whenever we’re in the area.