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Just venting a little - two things

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One of mine is people who throw cigarette butts out of their cars.
We live out of the city,about a block from a high school,& there's no side-
walks.I walked down the hill towards the high school,& picked up 40 + cigarette-
butts.On the street,around our property,I picked up 25 +.
 
AngliaGT said:
One of mine is people who throw cigarette butts out of their cars.
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I was a smoker up until 1990 when, with the help of developing severe Strep Throat, I was finally able to kick that nasty habit. When I was a smoker, I can honestly report that not once did I ever flick a butt out the car window. When I see someone doing that, I just shake my head and am reminded what my pappy would have said: “That boy ain’t had no proper fetchin’ up!” :poop:
 
An old New England secret: the beautiful tree lined "common" we associated with nineteenth century towns, never existed.

The "common" was owned "in common" by the town, so no one felt responsible for maintaining it. Garbage, dead animals, broken carriages, you name it, all slowly covered by weeds tall as a man. Pretty commons didn't start until after the Civil War, as a tourist draw. Not kidding!

For many folks, if they don't own it, they don't care about it.
Tom M.
 
NutmegCT said:
The "common" was owned "in common" by the town, so no one felt responsible for maintaining it. Garbage, dead animals, broken carriages, you name it, all slowly covered by weeds tall as a man.
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That pretty well describes some of our hiking trails near our home. I’ve had serious thoughts about placing several trail cams in the areas where a lot of dumping happens and see if we can’t nail some of these jack wagons!
 
Cigarette butts... ashtrays dumped in parking lots. Ignorant.

Still smoke, never littered the environs with a butt. All go into the trash. I keep my DNA to myself.

My dear departed mum used to say: "After man is extinct on earth and aliens try to determine why, they're going to find fuzzy cellulose spore everywhere and conclude that's what caused it."
 
A couple of years ago there was a crew of lawn service guys working in my neighbors yard. One of the guys asked me if they could sit under a shade tree on my property and have lunch. It was a hot summer day and of course I said "yes".
When the group of guys was getting into their trucks I noticed cigarette butts all around the tree they were sitting under. I hit the roof!
Luckily I just caught the crew leader as he was about to leave and told him to get his a$$ back out of the truck and clean up my lawn. I couldn't believe how rude it was of them to trash someone else's property when I was nice enough to allow them to sit and have lunch there :censored1:
 
Gliderman8 said:
I couldn't believe how rude it was of them to trash someone else's property when I was nice enough to allow them to sit and have lunch there :censored1:
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Likely I've posted it before, but... on the occasion of my eighteenth birthday me mum presented me with a coffee mug, on it was the message:

"I love MANKIND. It's PEOPLE I can't stand!"
 
Oh, speaking of people leaving disgusting things in their wake... Back when I was in the AF, stationed at Scott AFB in Illinois, we used to camp at Carlyle Reservoir, about 45 miles straight east of St Louis.

On one occasion, we decided to walk down to the shore about 1/8 mile from our camp site. As we were walking down the path, there was another couple, headed in the opposite direction back to the camping area, with a toddler in diapers in tow. When we got down to the lake shore, we discovered something truly disgusting. Someone (most likely the aforementioned couple) had left a freshly-soiled, and very stinky diaper right there on the shore! While Mary stayed at the shore, I picked up the diaper and headed back to the campsite with the diaper so I could at least toss it in a trash can at the camp site.

As I walked past the couple who were camping near by, I said politely, with a smile, "Good morning - man, can you believe someone would be so nasty as to leave a dirty diaper on the ground?" Neither one of them said anything.
 
Not only are cigarette butts nasty and smelly, but people throwing them while still lit from cars causes a lot of fires. Here in Texas it is not uncommon to be driving along a road and come up on a long stretch of burned out grass in the median or on the side (or a road closed while the local fire dept. is trying to contain it) - usually caused by some idiot tossing a butt.
 
Basil you started a firestorm but good call. I got into my car at a big Box Store started up and though about where to go next. A BMW parked next to me people arrived left their shopping cart behind my running car and started to drive away. I called them on it then a guy got out moved the cart one more car. He then asked if I was now happy. Two more spaces was the cart return space. You can't say to much to many people carry guns. MF
 
You are second in line at the grocery store check out.
The Cashier has no grocery bagger to help and the customer being checked out just stands there while the groceries pile up on the belt not lifting a finger to bag their groceries. They just leave it to the cashier to bag up the groceries. Then carefully places their cash on the little ledge by the cash register rather than handing the bills to the cashier.

David
 
Being younger than most of you, I know you all have your stories just like I do. It all comes down to manners. They aren't taught anymore but it should be a staple like it used to be. Just be a decent human being, and that all starts with right and wrong and manners. Parenting, if I were to be so taboo, but honestly I see more older people than young ones so I can't pin it on a generation as easy as that would be to do these days.
 
Yes, it all comes down to how you were raised and the examples you saw in front of you in those formative years. I try to be kind to others and I don't understand those who see themselves as a step or two above the rest and expecting the remainder of the world to pick up after them. A couple weeks ago I stopped an elderly lady in one of those electric in store carts as she went past. Why, the charging cord had com loose as was trailing for several feet behind. I picked it up and put it back on the cart while everyone else she'd driven past hadn't even said anything. For no other reason than it was the right thing to do to help out. Product of a nicer bygone time I guess.
 
A pal has said of contrary behavior: "They ain't been rized right!"
Parenting seems to have become a lost concept for too many.
 
"It's a sorry world..." Tim Wilson
 
All it took for me was when my mom said “wait until your dad gets home”
 
DrEntropy said:
A pal has said of contrary behavior: "They ain't been rized right!"
Parenting seems to have become a lost concept for too many.
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What was it Pogo said.... we have seen the enemy....

I would also suggest bad manners don't exist in isolation. When we see rudeness and self centredness everywhere (TV/ Social media/ nightly news/ etc.) we shouldn't be surprised that it spreads.
 
I live on a hwy and our town has pinics at the park basically for out of towners for filling the towns needy coffers. They do put trash cans everywhere. Had a guy throw a beer bottle in the yard and I diverted it to the hwy breaking as it hit the sidewalk and landing in the street. The guy yelled at me for doing it, told him my yard isn't for trash and his prints were on the bottle. Gasp, he picked it up. Had a Shriner dump his funnel cake papers and napkins in the yard as he was getting in his Cadillac. I told him to pick it up, be said I wasn't very neighborly. Told him I had his license number and I would dump it in his yard. Wow, he cleaned it up and took it with him. Still find beer cans and bottle in my ornamental grasses all year long.
 
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LarryK said:
Still find beer cans and bottle in my ornamental grasses all year long.
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Beer bottles, beer cans, soda cans, cups, you name it - it finds its way into the ditch in front of our house. Have had many the neighborhood "party" walking along the ditch on the county road filling up numerous bags of trash.
 
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