Have lots, but occupying my thoughts these past few days is that of people dropping litter. Has always happened for sure, but now we seem to have a new breed of litter lout.
A lot more people throwing stuff out of a moving car for starters. The other day someone in front of my threw out half a can of beer. I know it wasn't empty because quite a bit of the spray came onto my car behind and also the way the can landed you could tell them was still quite a bit of beer inside, because it didn't just fly off in the wind.
There's a whole new concept of deliberately throwing stuff now I have noticed.
On Monday we popped to McDonald's and there was a car parked in the car park with a young couple in (I would guess 17-18) and the lad sitting in the passenger seat ate his burger then just wound down the window and dropped the empty wrapper and bag on the floor, even though there was a bin not 10 yards away.
Worse still, on Tuesday we went to West Orchards food mall and some guy got his chicken burger or whatever it was and then walked from the counter, peeled off the wrapper and just threw it down on the floor, right there in the middle of the mall. Wantonly and deliberately threw down the wrapper.
Seems to be so much more prevalent.
A neighbour opposite me even does stuff like drink a carton of juice and then throw the empty carton over his shoulder into his own garden. Bizarre.
I notice schools seem to teach about litter in years 1-3 or so but then don't mention it again and kids then as they get older just throw litter wherever they feel.
