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Aug09
Litter
One of the pandemics of our time is litter - trash.
It's growing for a number of reasons - free newspapers, fast food and drinks in cardboard cups being prime suspects.
My generation cannot drop litter, and neither can my childrens' - they were taught not to by their parents. But between the two appears to be a generation which can - and, of course, so can its children. And they do.
This post was stimulated by a particularly egregious example of littering seen on my train to London today.
The seats in First Capital Connect's class 319 units are in groups of 4: between each block of 4 seats is a space generally used for luggage, although two or three in each carriage have a litter bin there instead.
The man sitting in the aisle seat finished his free paper and - as you do - tossed it onto the floor in the luggage space behind and across the aisle from him. He didn't - of course - bother to look for a litter bin. There was actually one right behind him, closer to him than the floor on which he untidily dropped his trash!
No doubt he was keeping a carriage cleaner in employment - and no doubt he groused about dirty trains and high fares. And, sadly, no doubt there are thousands like him!
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