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  • You saw me standing there.

    Yes I am a smoker though not a heavy one anymore (have cut way down). With all of the changes going on in my household I now tend to open the front door and smoke partially outside on the front porch while holding the screen door open.

    I was doing so just a few minutes ago. Now I live right next to a high school and HS'ers park on my side of the street.

    A car full of (YES) teenagers pulls up in front of the house like they are going to park. Nothing unusual there. The people inside must have gone to some fast food place as they all had the typical soda cups. They are all talking amongnst themselves.

    Now I an not hiding nor trying to conceal myself. Just standing there smoking not really paying attention to them.

    All of a sudden one of them opens the car window and tosses a BIG wad of paper onto my lawn.

    NOW you little asswipes have my attention BUT for some reason even though they are looking in my direction they do not see me. I take a step out of the door and suddenly they all seem to see me now and the look on their faces is a bit priceless. They continue to talk but keep looking at me (HMMMMI wonder why?? HMMMM BUSTED)

    I step inside for a second and grab my camera cause I want a "little evidence". The driver put the car in gear and backs up then almost pulls out, stops, and one of the people gets out of the car and walks over to my lawn and picks up the wad of paper, gets back into the car and it pulls off.

    One reason I like summer is because my lawn in not covered with trash from the high schoolers. Every spring after the snow melts I have to clean up (or mow over) a bunch of fast food and school trash.

    In this instance YES I can mostly blame the teenagers for the mess.
    I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
    -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


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  • #2
    I saw something similar, but in a Safeway parking lot. I pulled up and parked in this little area that is somewhat behind the store. It's not a busy parking area back there. There was a car full of teens next to me. As I was getting out, I saw one of them dump out what looked like fast food bags and an ashtray full of cigarettes. I did give them a dirty look. I ran inside, got what I needed and came back out. They were still there, and I *was* looking at them. The one in the drivers seat opened his window and asked (Very politely, actually) if I had a problem with them. I answered that I did, and I had a problem with anyone too lazy to walk the 20 feet to a trash can that they could SEE was right there. My kid, who was probably about 6 at the time told them that littering was a bad thing.

    To their credit, after being shamed by a 6 year old, they DID pick up their trash

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    • #3
      My wife has a habit of picking up trash, throwing it back into the offender's vehicle and then saying, all sweetnees and light, "Oh, you dropped this."
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      • #4
        Racket, I could not live that close to a HS. Even the kids at my school were messy, and we were a laid back, relatively nice school with generally respectful kids. Yet the path in the treed area near the school that led down to some auxiliary parking was always gross with trash. I don't get it, I was never like that and am not friends with anyone who is.

        People are so weird at my work about leaving stuff. Sometimes, I'll be at one counter, and the person I am in the middle of helping will take something (usually an armful of items) from their cart and walk down to the last counter and leave them. After I'm done measuring, I will walk down, get the items and come back and ask if they had decided against them. Then I put the items in the proper go-back bins. One lady left her unwanted items on top of some other fabrics on a display, and when her number came up I went out and got them. When I said "did you decide against these?" She looked me in the eyes and said "those aren't mine." Yeah, they're all the exact same shade of coral as the fabrics which you ARE buying. I think she thought I was passive aggressively trying to guilt her about leaving them. Oh wait. I was. Passive aggression is the only weapon I have, unsavory as it is.

        I've done the same when helping someone on the floor. They will just dump something right in front of me, and I don't even pause, I just pick it back up. Some will awkwardly say "oh, um, I don't want that" others just ignore it entirely.
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        • #5
          A question to everyone... if I get, oh, a Starbucks latte, drink half of it and decide I just don't feel it anymore, what should I do? Pour it out onto the parking lot before putting the empty cup into the garbage bag? Pour it into a tree? Or put the half-full thing into the garbage bag? I honestly don't like that idea at all. I saw at the mall once, a poor woman get soda all over her when a bag split. Opinions?

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          • #6
            Pouring out a latte is no big deal; leaving the cup is.
            "She didn't observe the cardinal rule: Don't F**K with people who handle your food"
            -Ryan Reynolds in 'Waiting'

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            • #7
              Yeh, I'd say it's better to dump the liquid into a drain/planter/etc and then toss the cup
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              • #8
                Quoth Racket_Man View Post
                Every spring after the snow melts I have to clean up (or mow over) a bunch of fast food and school trash.
                Have you considered gathering up the trash and returning it to the school? Tell them you are returning it to the students who "lost" it on your lawn.
                "I don't have to be petty. The Universe does that for me."

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                • #9
                  This weekend we saw two cars packed with college kids going to a local game stop at the light, roll down their windows, and set bottles or cups of drinks on their roofs. They then rolled up their windows and took off quickly when the light turned green, causing the cups to tips and spill down the back window of the car and leaving the cups littering the streets.

                  WHY?!?!?

                  I have a load of curses that would take Argabarga and his biggest truck to haul out of the way for you to start to understand how pissed that little stunt made me.
                  Sorry, my cow died so I don't need your bull

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                  • #10
                    Quoth EvilEmpryss View Post
                    This weekend we saw two cars packed with college kids going to a local game stop at the light, roll down their windows, and set bottles or cups of drinks on their roofs. They then rolled up their windows and took off quickly when the light turned green, causing the cups to tips and spill down the back window of the car and leaving the cups littering the streets.

                    WHY?!?!?

                    I have a load of curses that would take Argabarga and his biggest truck to haul out of the way for you to start to understand how pissed that little stunt made me.
                    ...Why did they want to mess up their own car as well as the street? Unless they were about to go to the car wash, that'd be a sticky mess!

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Aria View Post
                      A question to everyone... if I get, oh, a Starbucks latte, drink half of it and decide I just don't feel it anymore, what should I do? Pour it out onto the parking lot before putting the empty cup into the garbage bag? Pour it into a tree? Or put the half-full thing into the garbage bag? I honestly don't like that idea at all. I saw at the mall once, a poor woman get soda all over her when a bag split. Opinions?
                      As someone who has gotten day-old coffee and other assorted liquids all over his pants and shoes trying to wrestle a leaky bag out of trash receptacles at work (more than once ), I implore anyone with a half-full beverage cup to please dump it out (including the ice, if any) before throwing it in the bin. Or, if it's a bottle with a cap, please screw the cap on tightly if you're going to throw it away without finishing it. Whoever is tasked with emptying out the trash bins you use will thank you profusely. If it's outside, just dump it on the ground in a remote spot where other people won't walk/slip on it (the next rainstorm will wash it away anyways). If it's inside, go into the nearest restroom and dump it out in the sink (and run the faucet for a few seconds to wash the residue down the drain).

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Ironclad Alibi View Post
                        Have you considered gathering up the trash and returning it to the school? Tell them you are returning it to the students who "lost" it on your lawn.
                        Nice idea but in practice not really all that practical. Since my house is outside of school property there is little I can do. Plus I do not have any "proof" that the students are "responcible" (I do not have any type of outside video system and the time and effort are not worth it if I did.

                        Frankly I highly doubt the school would do anything anyway.
                        I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                        -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


                        "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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