First things first, I’m not bitching at smokers for smoking. Do what you want outside, whatever. So if you smoke, don’t bitch back at me for being anti-smoking because you’ll look like an idiot.
Anyway, I was sitting in the Public Gardens today on one of the many park benches and noticed that around most benches, there were a few cigarette butts. Not as much as on sidewalks but still more than you’d expect to see considering there is a GARBAGE receptical literally right next to where a half dozen or more butts were there. Maybe they blew out of the garbage thing? Or maybe a duck picked it up from outside the gardens? Or maybe a very few select group of people are THAT stupid and THAT self-centred and LAZY that they can’t tell the lovely Public Gardens from their own ass and throw their trash where ever they like?
This article appears in May 29 – Jun 4, 2008.