At the end of this Blog Posting you will see pictorial evidence of the end result of Litterbugs being Trained, Nurtured and Educated to be what they are.
As you will see at the beginning of this Blog Posting, the Trainers, Nurturers and Educators of the Litterbugs are doing one hell of a job and they are everywhere.
The smaller print below was sent to me by one of my Dear Readers…
Reading your blog made me think of one of our pet peeves – litter. I “walk the street” (not in the biblical sense though) every Sunday AM and pick up litter along our front property (about 600 ft.). It’s amazing how many cigarette butts I pick up with my “Grabber”, along with the many sandwich bags, cigarillo plastic holders and every fast food in the world’s stuff. Louisiana is such a dirty state!
I am the Secretary of “Tangi Clean” for the past 8-9 years where we try to make a difference in educating folks about litter. Our Chairperson personally supervises community service workers who have been given service hours to pick up litter (DUIs, minor offenses). It’s amazing that they can pick up an area around a street and then a couple weeks later go back and pick up just as much trash as they pickup two weeks earlier! It’s a generational thing; maybe because we recently got the State to legislate that school children get taught about how bad litter is – maybe they can make an impact later in their life.
What brought this “pre blog” on was the regular image of a driver flicking a butt out the window – many of which I have picked up. What’s worse than a reformed smoker? A reformed smoker (over 50 years ago) who is also an anti litter nut!
Foolish – or not??
Oh yea, the Training Part I promised at the beginning of this Posting…
It goes back to 1976 when we were living in California. My daughter came home one day bug-eyed because of what she had just witnessed…
Ø She was riding in the back seat of a car being driven by the mother of a school friend.
Ø The school friend finished eating a candy bar and she dropped the wrapper on the floor of the car.
Ø The mother admonished the school friend (educated her), “How many times have I told you! Don’t drop your trash in my car! Throw that out the window!”
Yes, our parents are the First Litter Teachers of the Good Ole USofA’s children (future teaching adults).
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The picture below is conclusive proof that that Littering Child has moved from California to Georgia...
I confronted this family about their dumping their dinning trash out the window of their car...
Ø I said... “Why do you feel it is OK for you to throw your dining trash out of the window of your car onto the ground in this parking lot?”
Ø Their leader said to me, “It is OK because, while we admit it is our Dining Trash, any fool can see it is not our Parking Lot! You ought to learn to mind your own business!”
When confronted with such irrefutable logic what could I do? I apologized for questioning their Trashing Rights and humbly smiled and waved while every single one of them gave me the finger as they drove away.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
