Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community - View Single Post

malcolmk14 · 08-04-2011, 10:36 PM

There was a brief discussion about this in the gear grinding thread but I feel a topic of this magnitude truly deserves its own thread.

Lately I've been finding that people tossing cigarette butts on the ground around me or out of their car windows really pisses me off. As an otherwise rational person, it pisses me off a lot more than it should; I want to grab these people and shake them and ask, "do you know how disgusting that is?"

I just can't remain silent about this issue any longer. When it comes down to it, I have a few things in mind that I can do to try and vent my frustration and anger regarding tossing cigarette butts. Any other suggestions or support for any of the following is much appreciated.

1) Just keep my mouth shut and carry on, people are always going to do things I find annoying or disgusting and there's nothing I can do about it.

2) Approach cigarette butt tossers and kindly tell them that I saw them throw their butt on the ground; ask politely if they would mind going back and picking it up and throwing it in a trash bin. The problem with this one is I can't imagine the type of person who throws their cigarette butt on the ground will be very receptive to a stranger asking them to pick it up.

3) I had this other idea which involved starting a blog or purchasing a domain name, taking pictures of the people who I approached and refused to pick up their butt, and posting their pictures to the blog. It would involve significantly more of my time and effort but right now I feel like it would be a healthy way for me to take out my anger on these deplorable people. I am not aware of any legal ramifications of taking people's pictures in public and posting them to a litter blog, but I can't imagine that there would be any.

As you can tell, this really bothers me. How do other people deal with things like this that they see multiple times a day? What should I do? It is driving me nuts!

08-04-2011, 10:36 PM	#1
malcolmk14 Franchise Player Join Date: Jan 2008 Exp:	Cigarette Butts There was a brief discussion about this in the gear grinding thread but I feel a topic of this magnitude truly deserves its own thread. Lately I've been finding that people tossing cigarette butts on the ground around me or out of their car windows really pisses me off. As an otherwise rational person, it pisses me off a lot more than it should; I want to grab these people and shake them and ask, "do you know how disgusting that is?" I just can't remain silent about this issue any longer. When it comes down to it, I have a few things in mind that I can do to try and vent my frustration and anger regarding tossing cigarette butts. Any other suggestions or support for any of the following is much appreciated. 1) Just keep my mouth shut and carry on, people are always going to do things I find annoying or disgusting and there's nothing I can do about it. 2) Approach cigarette butt tossers and kindly tell them that I saw them throw their butt on the ground; ask politely if they would mind going back and picking it up and throwing it in a trash bin. The problem with this one is I can't imagine the type of person who throws their cigarette butt on the ground will be very receptive to a stranger asking them to pick it up. 3) I had this other idea which involved starting a blog or purchasing a domain name, taking pictures of the people who I approached and refused to pick up their butt, and posting their pictures to the blog. It would involve significantly more of my time and effort but right now I feel like it would be a healthy way for me to take out my anger on these deplorable people. I am not aware of any legal ramifications of taking people's pictures in public and posting them to a litter blog, but I can't imagine that there would be any. As you can tell, this really bothers me. How do other people deal with things like this that they see multiple times a day? What should I do? It is driving me nuts!