I know a lot of folks are not going to like this, but I threw a hitchhiker away the other day.
Yup, I'm that evil person. The hitchhiker was found in a box a few weeks ago. It was a playdough container with a store bought Mini Mouse and a soaked, unreadable logbook. I thought about it a little bit and decided that it was time this particular hitchhiker left the earth, never to clutter up another letterbox.
It is something I have been considering for a while actually. There is a lot of this out there, flash in the pan letterboxers that have planted really poor letterboxes, lousy hitchhikers and the like, never to see from them again. Sometimes the boxes are in great places, places that when you find them you really wish the box itself were better, the location deserves better.
Some of these boxes have been out there for some time, and you just wonder, when will they finally die, pass on so that something better and more thought out can take their place.
Would it be so wrong, if the planter is no longer in the game, to help these boxes along? Was it wrong to help this hitchhiker meet its end? I am not so sure it would be.
