Pet Peeves: Lazy and Disrespectful People Who Litter
Over the past year I’ve been sharing with you some of my top 20 pet peeves and things that really irk me. Litter bugs are one of those things at the top of my pet peeves list!
My family enjoys spending a lot of time outdoors. We can often be found outside hiking, camping, lazing around on the beach, gardening, taking walks in the park and so forth. We love the beautiful outdoors!
With that said, I’m totally disgusted by lazy people who toss their trash out of the vehicle window, toss their trash bags along a back road because they don’t want to pay for trash removal services, leave their fast food bags & containers laying around and don’t get me started on those lazy-ass people who smoke and toss their cigarette butts anywhere they please. Ugh!
In just the past week I’ve personally seen:
* A feminine pad thrown onto a sidewalk outside of a shopping mall.
* Fast food bags & cups x 4 thrown throughout a parking lot, 2 more thrown alongside a road and 1 tossed in my freaking front yard.
* Bagged up trash thrown alongside a back road. There is a back road that leads into the back-end of our housing development and EVERY week people will toss their bagged up garbage alongside the road. This is household trash and these people don’t want to pay for trash removal services, so they drive along back roads and toss their bagged garbage alongside it for FREE pick-up by the township.
I’m a home owner and I don’t like paying $75 every 3 months for trash removal services but I do it because its part of my responsibilities of being a home owner!!! I’m freaking tired of these people getting away with crap like this!
* Cigarette butts, cigarette butts, cigarette butts! I don’t care if you want to smoke, that’s your business & your health that you’re destroying. However, you have no damn right to toss your cigarette butts anywhere you freaking please! If you smoke, clean up after YOUR OWN cigarette butts!
* Water & Juice Bottles, Soda Cans, Fast-Food Beverage Cups!!! What the heck people???? If you need to quench your thirst while you’re out and about…you also need to be responsible and dispose of your beverage-ware when you’re done! Its not my job nor anyone else’s job to pick it up after you’re done with it. LAZY!!!!
* Pet Waste – Okay, not normally thought of as “litter” but in my book it is! If you own a dog and/or a cat….it’s YOUR JOB to clean up their waste after they take a poop! Just because you’re on a public sidewalk, walking down a street in a neighborhood, walking them at the park or have them out running on the beach….IT IS YOUR JOB TO CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR PET!!! Disgusting!!!
Three times a year my husband and I volunteer our time to help clean-up our neighborhood by picking up trash & litter. We do the same thing when we’re down at the beach house and volunteer to clean up trash along the beach. We do OUR PART in helping to keep our beautiful planet clean!
I’m sick and tired of lazy people and disrespectful folks who think they have the god-given right to toss their garbage out and litter whenever they feel like it. Here’s a warning to you: If I catch you doing it…I will snap a photo with my cellphone and I will report you to the police. There are “littering” fines and I will request that they slap one on you. I’m tired of it. Be a responsible adult and clean-up after yourself.
