We don't play in your ashtray or spoon, so please don't smoke or shoot up in our sandbox.
Posted on July 14, 2004
On Monday Masako took Frankie to a small park very close to our apartment. Later that evening during dinner she told me how she had to pick out all the cigarette butts and trash from the sandbox before she could let Frankie play. I could feel a rant coming on, you know something about those dirty, dirty parks in Japan. But immediately after Masako when into how her good friend, that spent many years in Vancouver, told her about how children are educated about used needles in the parks and taught not to touch them. With the newer needle exchange programs I don't know whether or not this problem still exists in Vancouver but it sure put me back in my place.
I criticize things I observe in Japan often, yet I seldom do the same for Canada. I guess I should, though it�s always easier to hold the society that you live in under the microscope.
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