Jo's rant: Cigarette butts
Jo ranted yesterday about the whining going on regarding people not getting their Christmas gifts from Amazon. Come on, people! Do you know that people are without electricity? How about hurricanes, Tsunamis, wars for peace, civil wars all over the world, women getting raped and mutilated because they are women, children dying from starvation (not as in I am starving, let's go to Burger King) but real starvation? How about not having clean water to drink, on and on and on and you are angry that your gift is coming a couple of days late. It is hard to believe so wake up and stop whining. Be glad you woke up today. Be glad you woke up in the United States of American. Be glad you have money to receive a gift.
On to rant number two...this is the beach we have been at and will continue to be for the next few days. It is truly one of the prettiest we've seen.
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Sparkling blue water and powdery, white sand is littered with cigarette butts? We have been to the most gorgeous National Parks and have been appalled that people put out their butts on these wonders. But THIS beach has a sign and the sign says that it is the law to pick up after you dog (which people do) and to pick up your cigarette butts, put them in the doggie bags and throw them away. Two days ago as we were leaving we saw a pile of butts and were amazed. Sure enough the same couple who were smoking two days ago were there again and their butts were next to her chair.
Jo handed her a baggie and suggested she obey the law and use it for her butts. She looked at Jo like she was crazy but took it and say ok in a very unfriendly way. A minute later Jo went over (yup she does stuff like this even though Elliott thought she was going to get swung at by the boyfriend) and asked if they were smoking Marlboro's because that was what the pile consisted of. She said ya and Jo said that perhaps they would want to pick up their butts from the day before. She told Jo to get out of her face to which she commented that the beach is so beautiful why would they want to ruin it, how long it takes to degrade, etc. Jo wanted to take a picture of them, the butts and the sign and hope it went viral but Elliott said NO. He didn't want Jo to get so aggravated and what would it accomplish. Would you have done anything? What do you think about people who litter anywhere. As a side note 30 years ago when Elliott and Jo "met" over the phone and they were asking each other questions, Jo asked Elliott if he "threw gum wrappers out the window" to which he replied "only beer bottles." She knew she had her soul mate.
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On to rant number two...this is the beach we have been at and will continue to be for the next few days. It is truly one of the prettiest we've seen.
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Sparkling blue water and powdery, white sand is littered with cigarette butts? We have been to the most gorgeous National Parks and have been appalled that people put out their butts on these wonders. But THIS beach has a sign and the sign says that it is the law to pick up after you dog (which people do) and to pick up your cigarette butts, put them in the doggie bags and throw them away. Two days ago as we were leaving we saw a pile of butts and were amazed. Sure enough the same couple who were smoking two days ago were there again and their butts were next to her chair.
Jo handed her a baggie and suggested she obey the law and use it for her butts. She looked at Jo like she was crazy but took it and say ok in a very unfriendly way. A minute later Jo went over (yup she does stuff like this even though Elliott thought she was going to get swung at by the boyfriend) and asked if they were smoking Marlboro's because that was what the pile consisted of. She said ya and Jo said that perhaps they would want to pick up their butts from the day before. She told Jo to get out of her face to which she commented that the beach is so beautiful why would they want to ruin it, how long it takes to degrade, etc. Jo wanted to take a picture of them, the butts and the sign and hope it went viral but Elliott said NO. He didn't want Jo to get so aggravated and what would it accomplish. Would you have done anything? What do you think about people who litter anywhere. As a side note 30 years ago when Elliott and Jo "met" over the phone and they were asking each other questions, Jo asked Elliott if he "threw gum wrappers out the window" to which he replied "only beer bottles." She knew she had her soul mate.
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Comments
People who do that are just rude and don't appreciate the beauty of nature I guess... but they also don't appreciate their own bodies because they are smoking, so what do you expect?
You did more than I would have. I usually just give dirty looks or make loud comments in hearing distance... no guts to say anything directly.