Litter bugs (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Litter bugs

10:04am Monday 4th August 2008

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What is it about people that they are so lazy, they can’t be bothered to put a bit of litter in a bin?

And what is it about me that won’t challenge them and ask them to stop being such filthy, lazy gits and put the stuff in a proper receptacle?

Sunday night, for instance, and we were just setting off in the car for a round-the-weekend-off meal out.

At the end of our road, on the opposite side, a young couple strolled along, the ‘boy’ swigging occasionally from a big bottle of pop.

Then, without a hint of feeling he was doing wrong, he put the nearly-empty bottle down on a wall, and strolled on, leaving it for someone else to clear away.

There was even a public bin within 50-100 yards, too.

Hurrumph!

Then, this morning, another late-teens, early 20s young man was walking along Canal Road in shorts and long socks (surely a fashion faux pas for someone that age?) chomping on a bag of crisps.

Inevitably, when it was finished just as I passed on the bike, he ‘sneakily’ stuffed the empty packet behind a wall.

Should I have stopped and urged him to pick it out and put it in the end, again, a few hundred yards further down the road?

I may have been safer suggesting his fashion sense would make him a laughing stock in many of his contemporary’s circles.

And, some would say, he would have been justified in pointing out that my cycling gear was not exactly haute couture.