Glass - RodneyOlsen.net

Ever have days that get off to a bad start and then get progressively worse?

I reckon you’d be hard pressed to have had a worse start to the day than the guy driving the Walshs Glass truck that was parked on the side of South Street in Canning Vale earlier this morning.

The truck was a few hundred metres from the intersection of Bannister Road. The driver was back at the intersection with a broom, trying to move a significant amount of shattered glass from the roadside. Ouch.

The small broom seemed so inadequate for the task at hand. There was a lot of small pieces of glass across the road.

I’m glad that I’m not the guy who has to call his boss and explain the situation though I’m sure they’d be ensured for such occurences.

Thankfully there were still quite a few sheets of glass on the truck so he hadn’t lost his whole load.

I’m pretty sure I made it through the intersection without a puncture in my bicycle tyres. I think I’d better go check for any slow leaks now.

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I’ve got a great idea that could help our environment. We already recycle so many things but I’ve found a wonderful resource that seems to be completely untapped at this point.

If we want to recycle more glass products I’d suggest sending someone with an industrial strength vacuum cleaner up to the bike path that runs alongside Hepburn Avenue in Perth’s northern suburbs.

I needed to go to a meeting in the suburb of Kingsley a couple of afternoons ago. As I cycled along I could hardly believe the amount of broken glass on the cycleway. The mind boggles at how so much glass could find its way there. Are people doing this on purpose because they don’t like cyclists? Are the locals particularly clumsy? Is it simply an accumulation brought on by the fact that the local council has never bothered to clean the pathway?

I did my best to dodge the very frequent patches of shattered glass but I eventually found another way to collect the glass other than the industrial strength vacuum cleaner. I was about to cycle to work yesterday morning and found a small shard of glass in my back tyre. It didn’t slow things down too much. A quick tube change and I was on the road again but I could have done without it. I’m actually amazed that I didn’t collect even more pieces.

I’m increasingly becoming a big fan of plastic bottles.

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