Conversation on the GO train. The woman saying this is (brilliantly) sitting right beside a GO ad advocating the "green" benefits of taking the train to work every day. This is another distilled example of...of...
Destroyer: We have this tree on our lawn. It has berries or something, and it is beautiful, but when all those things fall off, it is such a mess for my lawn.
[the tree she is talking about is a crab apple tree. My family had one on our lawn all fourteen years we lived in Mississauga]
Destroyer: So we're going to get rid of the thing. If I had my way, I would put concrete all the way up to my house. I hate raking.
[Saints we are not, but my family obviously didn't mind raking]
...the train approaches Toronto, she continues to tell tales about her yard work...
Destroyer: That green box thing is not for me. It smells in the summer and everything. Maggots. Ew.
[In Toronto, as of March 2006, the program was diverting 100,000 tonnes from landfill each year]
Destroyer's Friend: It's the circle of life.
Destroyer: Well that circle can happen somewhere else. Not mine.
...if a lady doesn't recycle in the suburbs, does anybody hear it?...
