No Trash!

[spookysonata]

Last week, as I was pulling through the DT at my Dunkin Donuts on the way to work, I noticed a sign on the trash can by the speaker that said -quote-:

"DO NOT! Throw trash from your car in here!!!

The next time I went there, it was gone. Maybe an employee with a shred of common sense saw it?

[bainsidhe]

Depends. Was it really a trash can or just something everyone used as one? *shrugs*

[ZedOmega]

Heh. Phrased that way, it was like a challenge. 'Can you throw your garbage into this can while driving?'

[spookysonata]

Um, no, it was an actual trash can. That's why I was confused.

[Shalom]

Sounds to me like they intended it to be used for the trash resulting from the purchases made at that location (e.g. wax paper, empty coffee cups), but instead people were cleaning several months worth of accumulated rubbish out of their cars and dumping it in there. I guess whoever had to empty it multiple times per day got fed up with that.

[HYHYBT]

It seems awful to clean out weeks' worth of trash into one of those, but think about it: that trash came from drive-thrus anyway. It's just all going out at once instead of one bag at a time, so unless you habitually empty your car into the same store's trash can *and* don't always buy from there, it evens out.

[Dragonfly369]

what people do is they pull into the parking lot. empty there car of all trash including alcohol bottle at times ive even run into a few overly ripe dirty dipers. which makes it so that other customers cant use the bins until we empty them and its lather rinse repeat all night at times. and half the time these people dont even buy anything. just empty trash and leave.

[PepperElf]

maybe one of the trash-throwers got offended and demanded they pull the sign down?

[HYHYBT]

what people do is they pull into the parking lot. empty there car of all trash including alcohol bottle at times ive even run into a few overly ripe dirty dipers. which makes it so that other customers cant use the bins until we empty them and its lather rinse repeat all night at times. and half the time these people dont even buy anything. just empty trash and leave.

Hmm. I was thinking of my car, currently with the front passenger area piled from floor to halfway up the seat back in trash; if I were to clean it out in a parking lot, as I've done on occasion, it would even out because it's just stuff I didn't do the same with a little at a time. (though actually I do try not to throw away more than, say, twice what I buy in any one place.) Beer bottles and so forth are a *little* different, but that sort of person won't not clean out their car because you don't have a trash can available: they'll toss it on the ground instead.

[Dragonfly369]

Hmm. I was thinking of my car, currently with the front passenger area piled from floor to halfway up the seat back in trash; if I were to clean it out in a parking lot, as I've done on occasion, it would even out because it's just stuff I didn't do the same with a little at a time. (though actually I do try not to throw away more than, say, twice what I buy in any one place.) Beer bottles and so forth are a *little* different, but that sort of person won't not clean out their car because you don't have a trash can available: they'll toss it on the ground instead.

okay see this is where i have to ask. whats wrong with hen you get home grabbing the trash you put on the floor of your car and throwing it out. i mean if you got something in the morning went to work and came to DD later and decided to throw out that mornings trash cause the can is there no problem. But why in the world would you let trash pile up like that and think its all cool to stuff it in a trash can takeing up all the space. if 1 our of every 10 people do that it means i end up changing trash barrels about 6-8 times on a shift. it sucks. it slows times down for us because instead of takeing care of customers we are cleaning overflowing barrels of trash.

[HYHYBT]

Generally I do throw it out at home, though not anything like every day. Did it today, in fact, filling nearly half the hobo. But if I'm not home and have to make room for an unexpected passenger or something...