I'M SORRY but, this bugs me.

haffajappa
haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
edited October 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
this is trivial, really, but it honestly got me intensely mad.

i was walking over to subway just now [for the sake of me being frustrated at the moment i'll put in there that for you emissions lovers, it was one block, and i did not self-combust, die of exhaustion, get pneumonia from the cold.. etc :)] i was walking across the parking lot adjacent to the sidewalk. a group of four girls, maybe 17 years old - likely high school students - were walking up the sidewalk in the opposite direction. One deliberately THREW her cup of icecream forwards onto the sidewalk in front of her smiling friend. Maybe I was mistaken? So I turned and walk towards the road, looked where she had thrown it and sure enough there it was lying on the ground.

So I yelled to her as she was walking away "Was it too heavy for you to carry? Too difficult?" and she turned around and her friend and her gave me a dirty look. The only other thing i could do was to sarcastically note how mature she was, pick up the garbage and throw it out myself.

It bugs me not so much that she littered, but the mentality she had to do it. It was like she got some sort of satisfaction out of it.
I'm wondering what she's trying to prove, that she's cool because she litters? That she's cool because she obviously doesn't give a fuck? She's proving to the world she has angst? Maybe mommy and daddy didn't buy her a pink iPod nano for her birthday so she's gotta show the world she's a rebel.

I guess she doesn't see it as the only thing she proved was that she was too weak to carry a 300 gram container of half eaten ice-cream. Too idiotic to be mature and carry it to the garbage bin a block up the road.

And I can only make the assumption that her ideals stretch to more important things, and thats what really starts to bug me.

Hey, it hasn't been long at all since I was a teenager (technically only a few months), it hasn't been long at all since I was in high school. But you're fucking weak if you think littering is proving your worth to your friends (Or anything irresponsible for that matter) and don't try and tell me I wouldn't understand "what its like to be a teenager these days, growing up in a peer-pressured environment". I had half a mind to sick the dog on her, only I feed my dog quality food and not pieces of garbage.

Maybe its just me and my circle of friends who get bothered by this. We'd get frustrated when we saw our peers act like this. And it frustrates me to know that our generation should be the one trying to make a change, when a lot of people really DONT GIVE A FUCK.


/end rant.
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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    uh oh ... here we go again :p
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    uh oh ... here we go again :p
    AND ANOTHER THING....



    .no... just kidding. thats my only rant for the day.
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  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    doin'the-evolution wrote:
    AND ANOTHER THING....



    .no... just kidding. thats my only rant for the day.


    hope you are wearing a flame retardant suit.
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I don't like it when I see people throw trash on the ground like that either. I also wonder what they're thinking about that they seem to enjoy it. ???
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  • PearlJamaholic
    PearlJamaholic Posts: 2,019
    only one thing would have solved this problem

    cunt punt!!!!!
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    EquallyWorthless wrote:
    hope you are wearing a flame retardant suit.
    i am i am.
    complete with my guide of 'ignorant people for dummies.'
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  • the wolf
    the wolf Posts: 7,027
    hey, good for you for saying something to her.
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    only one thing would have solved this problem

    cunt punt!!!!!
    i just 'lol'ed.
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    the wolf wrote:
    hey, good for you for saying something to her.
    if she was closer, i would have thrown her icecream to her. 'hey, you dropped this. here, catch!'

    of course that wouldn't be very mature of me either.


    and you know what else? i forgot to mention, it was from dairy queen. SHE WASTED A PERFECTLY GOOD OREO BLIZZARD.

    not like she needed it though.
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  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    did you at least get her number?


    No i kid, you should see the morons at my bus stop. Just throw whatever on the ground and dont even try to walk towards the trash can.
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Slip Kid wrote:
    did you at least get her number?


    No i kid, you should see the morons at my bus stop. Just throw whatever on the ground and dont even try to walk towards the trash can.
    for a second i read mormons... it reminded me of Burn After Reading.


    aaaanyways, yeah, i see it all the time, but i rarely get a chance to say something about it cos i'll be on a bus or inside or something... or it'll be a giant dude i wouldnt wanna mess with (if he's an asshole enough to do something asshole-ish, he probably wouldn't think twice about hitting a 5'2 girl!)
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  • iamica
    iamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    I hate littering. What really bugs me, though, is when people leave their half-eaten food on the seats in buses and trains. Come on, now, the garbage can is right there. You couldn't walk 5 feet and throw it away? It's so inconsiderate.
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  • in_hiding79
    in_hiding79 Posts: 4,315
    Slip Kid wrote:
    did you at least get her number?


    No i kid, you should see the morons at my bus stop. Just throw whatever on the ground and dont even try to walk towards the trash can.


    LOL :D
    And so the lion fell in love with the lamb...,"
    "What a stupid lamb."
    "What a sick, masochistic lion."
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    iamica wrote:
    I hate littering. What really bugs me, though, is when people leave their half-eaten food on the seats in buses and trains. Come on, now, the garbage can is right there. You couldn't walk 5 feet and throw it away? It's so inconsiderate.
    Oh i know! I'm a frequent bus user and the last thing i want is your not-even-empty coffee cup rolling towards my feet!
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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    that's when it's good to drive a pickup with a catapult....see that sorta fuckery and then launch one of these bad boys at someone:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPNgkMeVIk
  • Thorns2010
    Thorns2010 Posts: 2,201
    My buddy moved out to LA back in August, and we drove out there.

    Anyway, I couldn't stand the fact that he would throw garbage out of the window of the car. But I knew if I said something, he'd just do it more, his.....uh... special like that!
  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    in_hiding79 wrote:
    LOL :D

    You either laughed because you also thought the poster was a he OR

    Knew that to be on the contrary


    either way i'm in the wrong and i feel embarrassed
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Slip Kid wrote:
    You either laughed because you also thought the poster was a he OR

    Knew that to be on the contrary


    either way i'm in the wrong and i feel embarrassed
    haha its okay, with a generally vague user name i usually assume the poster to be a male... weirdly enough for some reason.

    i also may be into girls.
    you never know.




    (i'm not by the way haha)
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    chiquimonkey wrote:
    that's when it's good to drive a pickup with a catapult....see that sorta fuckery and then launch one of these bad boys at someone:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unPNgkMeVIk
    oh my goodness.
    live pearl jam is best pearl jam
  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    I litter every once in awhile. Ill admit to it, im 19. But I do hate it when people litter and act like its funny or something. I have a friend who litters all the time, just throwing wendy's bags out of his car window while driving. One time I said something to him and he just goes "whatever dude I dont give a shit."
    People need to grow up.
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