Don't just look at it!!

Rachels kitchen 6/24/2010 3pm
Lunch with a friend, turkey and avocado wrap with a tuna salad sandwich. Very tasty stuff. Good day for lunch outside, not to hot just a little breezy. Just breezy enough to be attentive, the occasional napkin may feel the need to blow away. So you "the responsible adult" sharing this little planet with the rest of us make the seemingly simple adjustments necessary to avoid this little disaster. Quick brainstorm, let's see. Use your plate and glass as paper weights, hold a napkin with one hand, not impossible right?

Not for this douche bag.......

Lunch with who i assume business contacts. Two other well dressed white males around 30. During the meal a wrapper from his plate is blown from the table. As it scratches along the concrete it makes a noticeable sound that grabs the attention of the "douche bag" as well as my own. As I turn to identify this odd sound so does the douche bag.....and what the douche bag does next is why he is known as douche bag. He simply turns away from the wrapper, his wrapper, the wrapper that was delivered to him holding the food he ordered in a neat and orderly fashion on a plate that was set in front of him. He turns away from what at that very moment became LITTER!

Seeing this baffled me, after my initial thought of stabbing him in the back of the head with a fork wore off. The sheer amount of laziness and fuckall was indeed baffleing. The wrapper, his wrapper didn't fly away, he didn't need to hop in his car and persue the wrapper like a thief that snatched his wallet, allthough if 1000$ fines were handed out for litter like posted, he may be so inclined to take the 2 steps and pick it up.
Has this become acceptable behavior? A public restaurant, busy lunchtime crowd. Others along with myself saw this, can he really not care?
The two other men, business contacts. They seemed to not be offended like myself, I certainly wouldn't want to do business with such a man. Perhaps business comes before civic duty?

You may be thinking I make to much of this simple piece of litter? Maybe, maybe not.

Litter begets more litter, people are 17% more likely to litter where they see litter.
Nearly 20% of Americans litter.
A 2009 study found that litter in a community decreases value 7-9%. ( bad news for summerlin residents )
Costs to the U.S 11.5 billion dollars a year. Businesses cover 9.1 billion. Government, schools and others pick up the remaining 2.4 billion.

By the end of the meal I thought, I should be the responsible one and walk over and pickup his civic slack. But nobody likes to be told how to live, isn't that how wars start?

http://www.kab.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Focus_litter_prevention