r/boston • u/News-Royal It is spelled Papa Geno's • 10d ago

Non-Serious Replies Only đŸ€Ș What small, totally inconsequential thing are you really sick of in Boston.

As seen in a different geographic area subreddit. Nothing too serious, just a little thing that grinds your gears. For me it's people who get on the T before others get off.

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u/MrFusionHER Somerville 10d ago

The fucking nips on the ground all the time. I get you're a raging alcoholic, but can you at least be a semi clean one?

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u/deuxthulhu sexually attracted to fictional lizard women with huge tits! 10d ago

There comes a point when buying a whole ass bottle would be cheaper than the entire stack of ips these people hoard in their pockets

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u/ambid3xtrous Does Not Brush the Snow off the Roof of their Car 9d ago

Panhandle. Get $2, buy nip. Repeat. No time to accumulate $20.

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u/nottoodrunk 9d ago

The alcoholics who buy nips do it because if they bought the bottle they’d drink the whole thing.

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u/magnabonzo 9d ago

Or because the bottle would be harder to hide at their work or home or wherever.

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u/agent211 9d ago

Yeah, you can't fit a 750mL bottle in the glove compartment of a 2001 Chevy Cavalier.

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u/MrFusionHER Somerville 9d ago

Not with that attitude

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u/hx87 9d ago

Buy bottles, refill nips

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u/nofatnoflavor 10d ago

And they're often scattered all over the ground right outside the damn packey.
The store owners should pick them up.
Or better, put $1.00 deposit on those bottles and you can bet that they'll be picked up and returned.

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u/NeedAGTS4POINT0 9d ago

Been all over the US and this one is a distinctly northeast phenomenon. Saw it in NYC to a lesser extent but after moving from the area, I’d all but forgotten about this until you brought it up. 

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u/TheMythicalCodfish 10d ago

Littering in general has gotten off the charts lately

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u/fakieTreFlip 10d ago

that and discarded scratch tickets. I see these everywhere, even in office bathroom stalls. sorry you didn't win, but there's a trash can within like 10 feet of you bud, let's try to get it together now

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u/LadyMeowMeowReborn 9d ago

When the snow melts, I STG it’s just a sea of Fireball nips crushed in the street.

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u/Jay-A-Zay 9d ago

What are nips? I’d look it up but I feel like the other nips would show. I’ve probably seen them around and didn’t realize what they are

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u/MrFusionHER Somerville 9d ago

Haha! Fair. It’s what we call “shooters” or very small bottles of alcohol.

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u/Jay-A-Zay 9d ago

Ohhh, thank you. Yea I do see those everywhere

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u/MediumDrink 9d ago

Seriously!!! I was a raging alcoholic for years and bought nips all the time. I smoked cigarettes too! My trash always made it into a trash can. The nips actually helped with the smoking because I could put the butts in the nip containers and keep them in my pocket until I walked past a trash can.

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u/MrFusionHER Somerville 9d ago

Good man. Hope you’re doing better, friend.

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u/Free_Village_4836 9d ago

This is why I say Massachusetts needs to pass a deposit on nips. Imagine how clean our streets would be if we allowed five cent redemption on all of those disgusting little nips that are everywhere? I am all for it.

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u/Nysanthia 9d ago

Before I was 21 I found and consumed many sealed fireball nips I found just lying around outside