Careful when flicking your butts.

[BlaqueKatt]

My mother and aunt are life-long smokers, and they'll be the first to ride someone's ass about not picking up after themselves.

So will I, I may smoke but I sure as hell do not litter*

*empty altoids tins make great "pocket ashtrays", and my love for altoids means I always have spares, to give to those I see that obviously don't have one

me-"Oh I noticed you dropped this(hands over cig filter)"
Inconsiderate litterbug-"what am I supposed to do with that?"
Me-"oh here I have an extra tin, they make great ashtrays, wouldn't want to litter now would we?" *smilesmile*

As an aside main reason I do it is knowing my luck the one time I flick a filter-it's gonna be full of my DNA and land in a crime scene-and so far my pocket has a 0% crime rate

[Cat]

As an aside main reason I do it is knowing my luck the one time I flick a filter-it's gonna be full of my DNA and land in a crime scene-and so far my pocket has a 0% crime rate

I don't smoke.....but I never thought about that, lol. Oh, and I love tins....they also make good mini first aid kits

[LadyAndreca]

I don't smoke.....but I never thought about that, lol. Oh, and I love tins....they also make good mini first aid kits

I see I'm not the only one that does that! I keep bandaids and blister packs of things like tylenol, sudafed, dayquil, and midol in one. It fits exactly in the little pouch meant for a cell phone in my purse. Which reminds me, I need to restock it.

[ottid]

Ugh, some guy did that yesterday when I was outside the mall waiting for a friend, just fliked his haf smoked cigarrete on the ground, didn't even bother to stamp it out.

Oh, did I mention that about 5m away was one of the citywide bins tht have had cigarette tryas (I guess that's what you would call it?) added to them since the "no smoking in workplaces" law was passed, there should be no butts anywhere on the cities streets!

[crazylegs]

Friend of mine has no eyebrow on one side of his face because of this.

He rides a motorbike you see, and some driver threw the butt out the car window, said butt landed in an air intake on his helmet and gave him a rather nasty burn. Bit difficult to stop on the motorway when you're doing 70mph with your face on fire.

[telecom_goddess]

I smoke, and I don't smoke in my apartment (it's actually not allowed in the apartments here) so when I smoke out front I kill the cherry and throw the butt away in a garbage can or something. But there are neighbors who smoke outside and leave their butts on the ground! I am forever picking up other people's cigarette butts and I'm getting tired of it....

and when I smoke out back i have an ashtray to kill them in. The same neighbor who throws his butts out front also throws them all over his deck out back. EEEUUWWWW.

[AriRashkae]

I see I'm not the only one that does that! I keep bandaids and blister packs of things like tylenol, sudafed, dayquil, and midol in one. It fits exactly in the little pouch meant for a cell phone in my purse. Which reminds me, I need to restock it.

Huh. I keep 1st aid in my car, but not my purse. Never thought of that.

Now I must go dig through my boxes and see if I can find that tin from back when Winston-Salem was running special. I worked at the Blue&Green convenience store, and had a habit of collecting swag the regulars didn't want from those specials. It was a very pretty tin, and with my luck is probably bent.

[crazylegs]

Huh. I keep 1st aid in my car, but not my purse. Never thought of that.

You can get packets of pairs of gloves and a face shield that'll keep in your purse/wallet. That's generally sufficient to deal with most life threatening emergencies for first aiders

[MadMike]

There's always some idiot at my job who goes out to the garage to have a smoke (pretty much the only place you're allowed), and carelessly tossing the butts off the catwalk, where they land in the tan bark, or worse yet, on someone who's walking below. Every so often, they send out a company-wide nastygram about it, and threatening to ban all smoking on the property completely, but in the end, nothing is ever done.

One warm day, I was driving somewhere with the window open, when someone's cigarette butt flew in through the window and landed in my lap. I was pretty pissed off, and my wife actually had to stop me from chasing the other car down.

[BrenDAnn]

Oh, how I *love* (sarcasm) sweeping up cigarette butts outside the c-store. The funny thing is, the one person that throws most of them down--our manager. Yup. The Supervisor was NOT happy. Manager, of course, denied it. Oh, and then there are the times when some idiot throws a burning cigarette into the cigarette receptacle thing in front of the store, and the ash/butts/etc inside start smoking and smoldering. Yeah, it's really fun to have to dump water over the thing to keep from having a fire. Oh, and you, out there by the pump, with the lit cigarette in your mouth: I see you have a death wish. Please, don't take me, my coworkers, or our other customers with you!! Grrr!!

[Red_Dazes]

For years my friend, who was about 2+ pack a week smoker carried around a small water bottle in her purse or car with about 1/2- 1 in. of water in it. She just dropped her cigarettes into it and shoved it back into her purse, when she filled it up she just tossed it in the garbage and got a new one. It always makes me upset when people just throw cigarette butts all over the ground.

[blas]

I use a butt bucket at home and when I used to smoke in the car. They are about $3 at Wal-Mart and are small and convenient. They extinguish the cigarette right away.

I am so sick and tired of always being blamed for throwing cigg butts all over the parking lot here, when it's actually the downstairs neighbors and especially their friends who do it.

In fact, a few days after my apartment inspection, the idiot maintenance man was walking around all the apartments and the parking lot picking up trash and cigg butts, and right as he walked past me, he glanced upstairs at me and said "If I keep finding cigarette butts here I am going to make it so you people can't smoke at all here anymore!"

.....and then you won't have any tenants, asshole. I just shrugged and showed him my butt bucket and said "It's NOT me." If I hadn't been so tired, I probably would have said something about the "perfects" downstairs, but he would have never believed me and probably would have thought I said it because I'm the one doing it.

[Flying Grype]

Oh man. This morning I was biking to work, and while I was stopped at a light I caught a motion out of the corner of my eye, and when I looked it was the passenger in the car beside me flicking a cigarette butt out the window. He knew I saw him but neither of us said anything.

Then when he was pulling ahead of me after the next light, he reached out of his window with a water bottle, reached forward, and squirted it all over the windshield of the car he was in. For a minute I thought he was going to splash me or throw the bottle.

Inwardly I was thinking 'if you spit on me at the next light I will throw my bike at you' but I think it was all accidental.