On 20/12/2014 4:00 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/20/2014 5:42 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2014-12-20 5:04 PM, sf wrote:
>>
>>>> I don't really understand why it would matter to her if someone
>>>> licked their
>>>> fingers to open a plastic bag since it's their bag? Now, if they licked
>>>> their fingers and touched her bags, she would have a gripe coming. As
>>>> far as
>>>> iced diluting a drink, it's not really a huge problem unless someone is
>>>> taking an hour or so to drink it.
>>>>
>>> I agree with you and Jill about the plastic bag thing. Why care?
>>> It's their bag, not yours.
>>
>>
>> People are funny about things that aren't really their business.
>>
>> On a related note... I saw something strange a while ago. I was walking
>> from the parking lot to the Y gym. There was a bunch of trash on the
>> parking lot. Some moron had dumped a bunch of fast food wrappers and
>> cups on the ground. There was a couple ahead of me and the guy was going
>> apeshit over it. He said something to his wife, looked disdainfully at
>> the mess, pointed, did a lot of shoulder shrugging, dirty looks at the
>> mess. He went on and on about this litter. But did he bend over and
>> pick it up? No. Of course not.
>>
> Righteous indignation and pontificating beats actually doing something
> every time.
>
> Jill
A few years ago, a movie was being shot in downtown Toronto but to make
it look like a US city, they had dumped litter all over the area. While
they were taking a lunch break, a little old lady saw the mess and, not
knowing what was going on, phoned the city to complain. They sent out a
crew that cleaned up the area. Then the film crew returned.........
Graham