Bad Neighbour

We arrived on the new site and were surprised to find that there was already sawdust laid down. It turns out that a rival Swiss circus, let's call them Circus Elbow, had been here not too long before and neglected to clean up after themselves.

My circus takes great care in maintaining a good relationship with the communities where we perform. They take the idea of "leave no trace" to heart and pick up all litter, fill in all holes, smooth out all fields, and pick up every last particle of sawdust they lay down. They even go so far as to pick up any clumps of dirt that may get left on surrounding roads by the trucks before heading out of town. They are just that mindful.

Actually, no. That isn't mindful. It's normal. At least it should be. You wouldn't leave a mess in someone's home after a visit. And seeing as most of the terrains where we perform are later occupied by other circuses, it's only natural that we would leave them tidy for the other members of the circus community. That's just respect.

So you can imagine my outrage when on the morning of the build up, after torrential downpours during the night, we had to shovel out barrels, and barrels, and barrels of slopping, elephant poop infested sawdust/mud.

Circus Elbow, you are a bad circus neighbour.