A woman was "mortified" after attempting to do a good deed while walking her dog.
Librarian Stacy, 36, and her partner Miki, 32, were walking their Jack Russell-Yorkshire Terrier rescue dog Crunchie in Mystery Park, Wavertree after a day of decorating their house.
But during their stroll, the couple encountered a foe that often ruins this "lovely" local park - litter.
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Stacy explained: "In the summer, especially during lockdowns, you'd go into the park, and it was quite clear that people have gone and got a takeaway at lunch, sat in the park eating it, and haven't even bothered to put it in the bin.
"They just literally leave it on the grass.
"It's a bit disheartening to see a local park treated like that."
As they do up their house, Stacy and Miki often discussed how to improve their community as well as their home.
The pair join litter picks to help tackle the levels of rubbish, while groups like Love Wavertree work to improve the community, but Stacy and Miki feel like they're "sort of losing the battle".
On their way along Wellington Road, they spotted the occupant of a red Vauxhall Corsa dump litter from their car window.
Determined to do "one good deed for the day", librarian Stacy jumped into action.
Kitted out in a hoody full of holes, leggings covered in paint and a pair of Ugg boots, she plucked up the wrapper, marched to what she thought was the car caught in traffic, and placed it under the windscreen wiper.
Stacy said: "I felt really good. We'd had a really productive day because we'd cracked on with some painting, we'd made some decisions about what we were going to do house-wise, so I was like, 'Yeah, this is great'.
"The sun was shining, spring's around the corner, we're going to get this place cleared up, so I felt really, really good until..."
Miki could see the disaster coming as Stacy approached the car, but Stacy didn't realise until she was walking back to her partner and Crunchie.
Stacy said: "I put [the wrapper] under the windscreen wiper and I thought, 'She doesn't look like your typical litter louse', like a woman maybe in her 50s.
"I thought I was doing a good deed and this poor woman, she did look confused when I did it, and I thought, 'Well, serves her right really'."
What she hadn't realised was that a second red Vauxhall had joined the slow-moving traffic just behind the car in question, but Stacy didn't see without her glasses and she couldn't hear Miki shouting to her that she was approaching the wrong vehicle.
She placed the wrapper under the windscreen wiper of the second red car, only finding out her error when Miki told her once she'd crossed back over the road.
Stacy said: "I felt so embarrassed and so mortified that I was like, 'You need to try and contact this woman', because she's probably just like, 'What is going on?'"
Stacy said she wanted the woman to know she didn't mean to place rubbish on her windscreen but also had a message for the people ruining communities by littering and fly-tipping.
Stacy told the ECHO: "If you've not got a car and you can't get to the tip, there's still no excuse for dumping.
"When it's on public land that's a green space, that's really disheartening."
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