Counterintuitive

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 4:25 pm

On my morning walks with the hounds, I pick up trash along a quarter-mile stretch of a road. The week before last, it was hot with temps in the 90's and I picked up only two beer cans the entire week. This past week, it's been unseasonably cool (with a little rain); temps in the 70's--and I ended up picking up two or three cans every day.

Now, why would that be?

I'm guessing that on the hot days, folks drive with their windows up and air conditioning on and are just too d*mned lazy to roll the window down and toss the can out the window.

What say you--is this reasonable?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:33 pm

No politics--only that the beer cans I pick up are usually either the really cheap crap (Busch, Bud Light) or the big 24 oz. cans of rotgut like Steel Reserve, Mickey's or St. Ides (sometimes the 40 oz. bottles). Mostly stuff to feed a cheap drunk. Maybe every 6 months, I'll pick up a bottle of some halfway-decent microbrew. I shudder to think that the guy who drank the 40-ouncer is barrelling down the road right at me...

More annoying are the empty (and not so empty) cans of "energy drinks". They're sticky from all the sugar and attract flies.

Almost all of the stuff comes from the mini-mart 2 miles down the hill (their price tags on single cans is very distinctive).

bearphonium · Post by **bearphonium** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:07 am

Chuck G,
Have you seen the bin the transients have put up at the tracks near Greenhill and W 11th? It has a sign saying "donate cans".

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:19 pm

bearphonium wrote:Chuck G,
Have you seen the bin the transients have put up at the tracks near Greenhill and W 11th? It has a sign saying "donate cans".

Nope--that's a fur piece from my house--I try to stay away from crazy W 11th if at all possible. But it figures.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:39 pm

The fact is, that people just toss the cans towards the window; If it's cool they go out, but if it's hot, and the windows are up for AC, they just bounce off and end up in the back seat. And you don't wanna be lookin' in their back seat!

RyanSchultz · Post by **RyanSchultz** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:07 pm

Supersize MGD and high octane "Kool-Aid" in my hood. Ugh!

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 1:56 am

Having lived in several "developing" parts of the world, I am fascinated with what people consider as being clean.

In Vietnam, Indonesia, and other parts of Southeast Asia, people sweep trash from their houses into the streets, where it clutters everything outside.

In Ecuador, Panama, and other parts of Latin America, people sweep everything from the streets into their houses.

I guess it shows where priorities are.

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:05 am

LoyalTubist wrote:In Vietnam, Indonesia, and other parts of Southeast Asia, people sweep trash from their houses into the streets, where it clutters everything outside.

Try chewing gum in Singapore.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:18 am

I have. You can get away with it as a foreigner. Locals can chew gum and give it to their friends. The big crime is selling it. I had a friend whom I knew when I lived in Indonesia who often financed weekend trips to Singapore from Jakarta by selling chewing gum to her friends and relatives in Singapore.

Bad woman! Bad woman!

You also don't want to try sticking it under restaurant tables, on streets, in trash cans (without first putting the used wrapper around it!), or anywhere else!

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 9:46 am

National cleanliness may vary but certain individuals anyplace can be world class cruds.
The day we removed our equipment from a night club stage after two years as house band was an eye opener. The drummer threw beer cans, whisky bottles and cigarette butts over his shoulder when he finished them and the mess behind the bandstand, under the curtain was disgusting.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:33 am

Man, I wondered what kind of slobs had preceded on that stage!

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sat Jul 28, 2007 7:10 pm

You wouldn't work that cheap,WSB.
I forgot to tell you the janitor found a 25 caliber pistol somewhere in that pile.
The drummer said, "I wondered where that thing went."
I guess one shouldn't stuff a pistol in one's back pocket when sitting on a drum throne with no back.

toots

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sun Jul 29, 2007 12:46 am

Why yes, how could you tell?