Drinking Green Coconuts in Panama

Drinking a huge green coconut walking down the street. Once I had sucked down all the sweet liquid I hurdled it onto the beach. A Panamanian man from a car yelled at me, “Don’t throw your garbage. You need to help us clean.”

I screamed back, “It was a coconut.”

The man’s huge SUV was obviously polluting more than I was as I could barely breathe due to the rush hour traffic. I looked next to the side of the road. It was so covered with trash thrown from cars that I could not see any green except for the coconut I had just thrown.

I and the other foreigners are not the ones to blame for the rubbish there. Why don’t the Panamanians help themselves and put up a few garbage cans along the sidewalk?

Coconuts are not trash. Coconuts are natural. They decompose when they are thrown outside. I think it is utterly stupid to throw a coconut in a garbage can.