When one crosses a bridge and glances sideways, one is shocked driving American
tar macadam to see the word, "rubbish" on a sign. "Garbage," yes, to this I
have become acculturated. We drove further; here was another version, with the
same wording, "Do not throw rubbish from the bridge." My post-colonial heart
leapt. My brain considered the possibility that the British presence in Hawaii
is not merely recalled on Memorial Day by some far corner of a foreign flag
with Union Jack still there. I must compose an anthem; we Brits still have
"rubbish" on notices.
David Ritchie,
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