Hey, you lazy bums!
Throw your trash in a trash can!
By Brad on May 27, 2008 in Daily Grind, Our Town, Outrageous, Soapbox, Things That Make You Shake Your Head | comments(3)
It never ceases to truly amaze (and utterly annoy) me.
I’m commuting to or from work, or I’m driving somewhere around town, and I see someone roll down their window and discard a piece of trash. Sometimes it’s a plastic wrapper. Sometimes it’s a piece of paper or a fast food wrapper. Often it’s a used cigarette. Most don’t even try to hide it; it’s as if there’s nothing wrong with littering.
How would those people feel if I just came over to their house and dumped my trash in their front yard?
Unfortunately, since we live on a corner lot, we see that as well. Other people’s trash litter our lawn — on a daily basis. Plastic pop bottles, empty beer bottles and beer cans, empty beer cases, empty cigarette packages, fast food sacks and wrappers, and assorted other trash is thrown (or blown by the wind) into our yard on a constant basis.
It completely boggles my mind that people are so lazy, so careless and so [CENSORED] rude. It demonstrates just how self-centered so many in our society have become. They simply don’t care enough to care at all about anyone but themselves.
If you want to live in your own filth, fine. But don’t share your filth with those who certainly don’t invite it. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” If you don’t want people dumping their trash into your front lawn — or, better yet, your living room — then don’t dump your trash on the land we all share (and especially on MY yard). It really isn’t that hard to throw your trash into a trash can.
Grow up and clean up after yourself!
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[And that concludes today's rant/soapbox/public service announcement.]
