December 16, 2010
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…litterers: the laziest members of the human race…
i live in a nice neighborhood, on a pretty street, only blocks away from a college campus. i haven’t noticed this phenomenon across the whole city i live in, but in the few blocks i occupy, there is a ton of litter. and it’s not just the odd soda bottle or scrap of paper. it’s can after can of beer and fast food bags stuffed full of meal packaging.
first of all, i have to point out that it’s really disconcerting to imagine that many people drinking while they’re driving—there is an unbelievably vast quantity of empty alcohol containers out there!
but what i’d really like to know is: what the hell kind of person is such a neat freak that he cannot bear to contain trash in his car for one second longer—yet is untidy enough to toss the garbage out into the street?
i just don’t get it. i rarely have trash in my car—a book, a spare jacket, an umbrella, or a tire gauge, sure! but i don’t eat fast food, so i don’t amass piles of fry boxes. i get my mail in a mail box at my house, so i don’t have old envelopes scattered around. in fact, honestly, i don’t really have a concept of trash in my car. but if i did have trash with me–for whatever reason–and i was suddenly surprised to find myself in my vehicle, i’d wait until i was near a trash can, and i’d dispose of it properly.
so why anyone would see it necessary to throw trash out the window of a car is a concept completely lost to me. it’s the same as the jerk lex stopped that day at the grocery store—the guy who didn’t bother with trying to aim his cigarette butt anywhere even close to the vicinity of the smokers’ station that was right by the door he had to use to enter the store. it was just the friggin’ laziest thing i had ever witnessed.
i’ll be honest: if i ever see someone toss crap out of their car, i will not think twice about chasing them down. i know i’m a little bit militant, but i have absolutely no tolerance for lazy people who take steaming dumps all over the face of mama nature. besides, i’d really like to get face-to-face with someone who is so honest-to-God inept at common courtesy, lazy to the point of hardly qualifying for life, and dichotomous in terms of cleanliness.
seriously. someone please, please explain to me why litterers exist!
Comments (3)
Whoo! You said it! -seriously applauds enthusiastically- I’ve even seen people walk out of their apartments and drop trash in front of the building as they were walking to their cars! I think that just takes it to a whole ‘nother level. I don’t know if it’s laziness, *true* narcissism, a lack of common courtesy, or what – all I know is that it needs to stop! Be careful when chasing people down – if they’re really drinking and driving, only God knows what they’ll do in that intoxicated state! Urghhhh… driving under the influence with a cherry-on-top of littering. Just makes me so upset >:(
There was a book that we got from the library years ago that had a clever solution to the litter problem. The little girl in the story was able to make the person’s trash go back and stick to the person. Soon most of the people in the city were covered with trash that they couldn’t remove. Somehow, in the end, it all got resolved and the people in the city promised not to litter anymore. The image of the litter flying back to the litterer is one that still sticks in my mind. bjra
YUP!
You know cigarette butts are my personal pet peeve, but trash is trash and a roadway is not a receptacle.
Set up a traffic camera in Ninja’s front yard and report the license numbers of anyone you see on camera tossing trash. At least the state will send them a letter! *shrug*