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Ok, so another thing that I've experienced twice in the past 3 days that bothers me so much is people who blatantly litter, especially if they're standing within feet of a trash can.
On Tuesday, I was walking home from my film crit and there was some girl in her late teens/early 20s eating a snow cone or something out of one of those paper cones. She was standing at the bus stop literally 2 feet away from the trash can. As her bus pulled up, she finished her snow cone, crumpled up the paper cone, and threw it on the ground. As I walked by, I stepped in front of her, picked the cone up off of the ground, and threw it into the trash can. Then the fucking bitch looked at me, wiped her hands with a napkin, and threw the napkin on the ground!
I found myself saying aloud, 'are you serious?' as she turned and got onto the bus.
It's one thing to be a lazy piece of shit who refuses to put trash into a trash can that you're standing right next to. It's another thing to be such a rude and worthless degenerate that when someone is picking up your filth and putting it where it goes, you'd do something else just to spite that person. I was enraged.
Then today, I was walking to my history final and some dude finished his coffee that was in a styrofoam cup and threw the cup onto the ground and hightailed it out of there. I again picked it up off of the ground. Granted, he wasn't physically standing near a trash can, but seriously - we're in a major metropolitan area where there's a trash can at every street corner.
Now, I don't go around picking up every piece of trash I see. I know a lot of trash in the street could potentially be blow-off from trash cans or sometimes you just accidentally let something go. We're only human. But when I see someone deliberately put trash onto the ground, it makes me so angry. I pick it up in the hopes that they see me and feel like a dick for littering.
That's something that really bugs me about smokers. I think it's disgusting that smokers feel entitled to throwing cigarette butts wherever they damn well please. Not only is it still littering, but the cotton/paper combo doesn't biodegrade easily so your filthy cigarette butts will be all over the place for a long time. This is why I wish smoking were illegal more so than for health reasons. Imagine a smoker saving every cigarette butt he or she accumulates over a year and then dumping them all into the street at once. It'd be a massive, unsightly pile. It doesn't soften the act of littering when you spread it out over time.
I'm a firm believer of 'every little bit counts' when it comes to a lot of things. Like littering. If people would take the time to not litter, eventually there wouldn't be any litter. Also for the past few months, I've been eating vegetarian (well, pescetarian) during the weekdays and only eating meat on weekends. A lot of people think that's a hypocritical way to do things, but the way I look at it, every vegetarian meal I eat is one less meal of meat that I eat. I care about animal rights, but I'm not the kind of person that would go to rallies or firebomb a cattle farm. I also can't see myself swearing off steak permanently. Like I said, I feel like every little bit counts and as long as I'm doing the right thing all of the time and going a step beyond sometimes, things can only get better around me.
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