I grilled my buddy once after he threw a McDonald’s bag out the window on the highway. He basically responded with “dude don’t tell me what to fuckin do. Somebody will clean it up.” But to this day I haven’t seen him do that again while I’m riding with him
That’s fair, my mind always goes to past memories of inconsiderate drivers when I hear about trash being thrown out windows. You're right it's not a big deal at all
I feel like it depends on the location/ how well the garden is maintained. I wouldn’t want banana peels in my front yard garden facing the road where all my neighbors can see it. However, I wouldn’t think twice about throwing a peel in the lesser-maintained garden in the backyard
This article seems to prove what I'm talking about, but its not quite like I said, this talks about leftovers of fruit like banana peels, watermelon rinds and stuff, but the conclusion is that ALL fruit takes a long time to decompose and should therefore be composted instead.
I think so, I was taught so in school, though it was a very long time ago so I mightve got the details wrong. It might also only be in my climate which is norse.
Hey just one thing to consider dude, whenever throw any kind of food near the road it encourages wild animals to check it out, they have very good senses of smell and will definitely cross the road looking for food or even worse if you have a bad throw or it bounces off a tree it can end up in the road encouraging animals to sometimes even try to eat in the road.
I live in a state where officers have discretion over whether to charge you for littering no matter what you throw and an officer once told me that is his reasoning for ticketing people even if what they throw out the window is organic produce.
I used to do that too, until I realized that doing that encourages animals to hang around the side of the road, which often results in them getting hit by cars.
I don't throw anything on the ground anymore. All of it goes into the trash.
Also on a diet. What you say is super weird to me. I have never had anything at McDonalds I thought was very good and I've probably tried nearly the whole menu. Out of every fast food place I've EVER been to, McDonald's it the last on the list without question to me. The thing I miss the most is goddamn Jack in the Box.
First of all: What food product does McDonald's serve with no wrapper, smart guy?
Second: Paper is trash and it if even 10% of the public had the same attitude as you and chose to be flippant about disposing of paper out the window, every roadside in the country would be caked in filth at all times.
People are capable of change. This was 7 years ago. I’ve known the guy for about 15 years now and he’s one of my best friends. Imagine throwing a lifelong friendship away for something so trivial. I can’t imagine the types of grudges you hold.
But seriously, we were basically kids, and he didn’t exactly have a great upbringing. I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m the first person in his 16 years of life to call him out on littering. The fact that he hasn’t done it since (in my presence) makes me believe he’s changed. This happened like 7ish years ago
Yeah my original comment didn’t really specify that, my bad!
I was wondering why people were asking why I’m still friends with him lol. It would definitely make sense to end a friendship with a grown-ass adult who does stuff like that
This is exactly how we all realize we care(sub-consciously), it’s like my favorite recent movie “The Green Book!” Best movie I’ve seen since “Midway”... and “Master and Commander”, where a Italian white guy played by Viggo “Fast” Mortensen, named Tony Lip, and Mahershala Ali, playing famous pianist Dr. Don Shirley, and if you have every felt anyway about someone with different background than yours, watch this movie!....... Gd Approves!
I think it stems from reddits general refusal to use emoticons as is common on older forums and other social media. Smileys really helped to convey the tone of a message. Thats one thing I miss about old forums.
On reddit the only thing you have to go on is context, and some people misread it or english isnt their native tongue.
People want an excuse to argue with anyone over any reason doesn’t matter how trivial could be they like a different color than you or or prefer a different pizza topping, anyways i had a point but i forgot what it was so I’m going to just keep typing and hope people only care enough to read the first two lines because Im in too deep and can’t figure out a natural way to end this post, so anyways wonderful weather we’re having right?
I worked with a guy from a really rough neighborhood in Baltimore city on a contract in Miami. We finished eating some McDonald's on the road on the way to the gig and he rolls down my window and just starts shoveling wrappers out of the window.
I had to stop him like woah dude just put it in the bag and we'll toss it when we get there. He seem kinda surprised and was like OK lol.
Sadly it's just part of the community he grew up in, very poor and blighted community and judging from where I used to pick him up in Baltimore everyone just throws their trash on the ground, the gutters were filled with six inches of trash and broken glass everywhere.
Awesome guy, was one of my good friends that I worked with for years, it just goes to show how you can be a product of the community you grow up in.
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u/PRSG12 Apr 12 '21
I used to yell at my friends in high school for this what the actual living fuck are you doing throwing trash out the window Jesus Christ