The world is not your garbage can.

The BBQ Pit
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Come to think of it, you wouldn’t know a garbage can if one was emptied over your senseless head - and believe me, it crossed my mind.

Seriously, I’d hate to think what your house must look and smell like. ::shudder::

So I’m in the parking lot of the grocery store and I’m loading my groceries into the trunk. The owners of the car next to mine arrive, load their stuff and I hear the woman remark that the baby needs to be changed.

Okay, so the woman hops into the backseat of her car with baby in tow and it’s pretty obvious she’s changing the child’s diaper.

Shortly, Madame Le Pew exits the back seat of the car, shuts the door and goes around to the front passenger side. I see her turn just before she gets into the car and hear a soft “thump”. She turns back, darts into the car, slams the door, they back out and the car takes off.

Lovely. Just lovely. I love nothing more than seeing a feces-laden diaper strewn on the ground in a parking lot. It really adds a much-needed measure of class to the place, no?

And for pete’s sake, are the complexities of diaper-wrapping so beyond you that you couldn’t even wrap up the dirty diaper? Clearly, that sort of origami-like task is beyond your capabilities, so you just pitched the diaper onto the ground without wrapping it up so that we could all enjoy little Jane’s big leavings.

And by the looks of it, you might also not be aware that the weight notations on the diaper package don’t apply to the diaper itself, but to the child. Diaper does not necessarily hold 22-35 pounds of waste - even the super-absorbent ones, asshole. Change the kid’s diaper a bit more often and it won’t grow to the size of a watermelon. :rolleyes:

There was a waste receptacle just across from the cart carousel, just a few feet away, but naturally you couldn’t be bothered to walk your lazy ass that far to pitch the dirty diaper in it. Much easier to throw it on the ground. :rolleyes:

Asshole. Let’s hope the karmic forces make you into a sanitation worker in your next life. Like littering? Poof! Now you ride the back of the garbage truck, buttmunch. Enjoy. :smiley:

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Given her hygene practices, odds are good that there’s an endoparasite circulating in her family.

Pinworm infections are the Atheist’s version of cosmic justice :slight_smile:

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I share your disgust, and your astonishment at the sheer – well, words fail. Stupidity, inconsideration. Disgusting, moronic behaviour.

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If only you could have gotten her license plate… The only proper punishment for people like this is to deposit the diaper on their doorstep.

That’s what one of my neighbors used to do to neighbors who wouldn’t pooper scoop after their dogs.

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I’d rather see them hit with a public littering citation, which is a pretty hefty fine in most places.

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I watched a guy come out of the convenience store, walk past the garbage can right by the hood of his car, unwrap his cigarette package and throw the wrapper on the ground. Did you catch the part where he WALKED RIGHT PAST THE GARBAGE CAN? I was sorely tempted to go over, pick up his garbage, make eye contact with him, and place it in the provided receptacle, staring at him all the while.

And then there’s the people who open their car door and dump their ashtray in the parking lot. And the people who throw their fast food wrappers out the window at the stop light.

What the hell is wrong with people?

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As if that would do any good!

I’m typing this at a public library. The rudie next to me is talking, loudly, on his cell phone. When I asked him not to he told whoever else was on the line about how he had to go before he did something he’ld regret :rolleyes: to the rude person next to him.

Taking the hijacking a bit farther, I’ve noticed when you admonish people for bad manners you increasingly get the rudie, “I’d do something about you {pointing out my bad manners} but I don’t want to go back to jail.”

My response is now, “Damn those pediatric laws!”

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I’m not sure why but for some reason dirt, filth, disorganization, and litter attract people who are dirty, filthy, and litterers.

There is a Target store near me that is sparkling clean and organized all the time. The employees are presentable and the parking lot is clean.
And all the customers I see in there are normal acting clean folk of all race.

Then, on the rare ocassion I got to the Wal-Mart around the corner (same neighborhood mind you, within walking distance) it’s always filthy inside with boxes in the aisles. Every employee looks like they rolled out of bed.
And of course the customers all look like the hillbillies of every race, gangstas, rednecks, white trash, screaming mothers, running kids, barefoot, dirty.
And the parking lot is like a trash pit. People just open their car doors and push a months worth of fast food bags out the door.

It’s like for some reason these people know their place or just like to be among the riff-raff. I don’t know if they feel out of place in a clean Target store or what the deal is. Just a really weird social observation.

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I was mowing, raking, pruning, ect. in my yard when a car pulled up to the curb, lady got out and proceded to throw out newspapers, fast food containers, cig butts. I walked up and told them loudly that I had their licence number and was calling the police. They left their crap but tore out of there in a big hurry. The kicker is they were both 50+ years. Not the kind of people you would normally expect that from. I didn’t bother to call the police though, I really doubted they would actually do anything about it.

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This reminds of someone I saw outside our office having a cigarette. When he was done he reached OVER the ashtray and dropped his cigarette on the ground. Not only did he not use the proper receptacle for disposal of his cigarette but went out of his way not to.

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Had something similar happen next to me a couple of years back, EXCEPT they had just arrived at the store while I was getting ready to leave…just guess take a guess what I did. :eek:

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Makes you want to pick the butt up and mash it into his head, doesn’t it?

(Some day when I’m feeling feisty I’m going to start a Pit thread on the littering habits of smokers. But not today - I’m still getting over my cold.)

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Just make sure and let me know. I’m a smoker that doesn’t litter. We can have a flame war! :wink:

(pun and teasing intended)

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By all means. There’s room for more verses of Holy Scripture.

Incidentally, new research from the Institute has shown that there is a virtual 100% correlation between the act of tapping one’s cigarette ashes out the open window of one’s car, and the likelihood that the entire butt will be hurled out the window when the smoker is finished with it.

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Well, I, for one, have a small brushed metal butt holder in my car. I do flick the ashes, but the butts go into the container. I almost feel pious as I hold up the little thing and allow all other drivers to notice my good manners in not tossing my butt onto the street.

I’m ashamed to be a smoker. I’m sure that the habit has hindered possible friendships, because some people are just butt-ists, and write me off as scuzzy simply because I smoke. I’m NOT scuzzy!

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But you do stink. I prefer friends who don’t stink. I don’t think that makes me butt-ist.

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I’ll join you. 99% of them are pigs.

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Wow, you can tell how one anonymous individual smells all the way into San Francisco?

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Never known a smoker who didn’t stink. To give them some small credit,some of them try to cover it up- but can’t really smell the stink so they don’t succeed.

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For some reason, the smoke smell doesn’t tend to stay on me. I’ve been around people that have known me for months or years and regularly saw me within minutes of me smoking and had no clue I was a smoker till they saw me smoking. Those people were all non-smokers.