Keep your “butts” in the car
Warning: ranting and rambling post coming up…
Hey lady, yeah you! I’m right behind you in my loser’s cruiser watching you puff that digusting health hazzard butt as in the cigarette butt, and then as if you thought nobody is looking, casually flicked that cigarette butt on to the street like it were your own ash tray.
Since it’s a nice day out, I had my windows down so that my children and I can enjoy some fresh air, but instead we had to sniff that disgusting second hand puff whiffing toward our van. Wait the second, are you lighting up again? That was just 5.5 seconds since your last butt!! *eye rolling* And is that a dog in the back of your car? Poor bastard, being in an enclosed space with second hand smoke! You don’t deserve that little buddy.
And this light is not turning green fast enough. Wait the second, you did WHAT?! Oh NO! I didn’t see you flick that second butt out of the window again did I? Yup, you did! You see that little fracking (my hubbie turns me on this term from Battlestar Galactica, nerd that he is and proud of it!) tray underneath the radio in your car, that’s what it’s for, to discard your nicotine big bad butts.
Why do you smokers (I’m generalizing here, so prove me wrong folks!) think that you can discard your butts any where you like. If you don’t like to use the car ash tray to discard your butts, why not use a cup or some other containers, leave it in your car and THEN dump it in the proper place…THE TRASH CAN! It’s not rocket science here folks. Would you like it if your yard is littered with butts for your little younglings to sample, be it children or aninals? I didn’t think so!
Why does this bother me so? Well, first of all, I hate litterbugs and according to this, there are 4.5 trillion cigarette butts discarded yearly around the parks, sidewalks and public places, in this case…the streets. There are 165 chemicals in cigarettes, and when it’s not properly discarded, it can be detrimental to not only the many birds or small animals that ingest them thinking that it’s food. But it has been the causes of many devastating fires and enviromental damages.
If you decide to kill yourself slowly by lighting up, at least do the rest of us, humans and animals alike, a favor…discard your butts in an ash tray. That’s what it was meant for. AND DON’T BE A FLICKER!
Warning: ranting and rambling post coming up…
Hey lady, yeah you! I’m right behind you in my loser’s cruiser watching you puff that digusting health hazzard butt as in the cigarette butt, and then as if you thought nobody is looking, casually flicked that cigarette butt on to the street like it were your own ash tray.
Since it’s a nice day out, I had my windows down so that my children and I can enjoy some fresh air, but instead we had to sniff that disgusting second hand puff whiffing toward our van. Wait the second, are you lighting up again? That was just 5.5 seconds since your last butt!! *eye rolling* And is that a dog in the back of your car? Poor bastard, being in an enclosed space with second hand smoke! You don’t deserve that little buddy.
And this light is not turning green fast enough. Wait the second, you did WHAT?! Oh NO! I didn’t see you flick that second butt out of the window again did I? Yup, you did! You see that little fracking (my hubbie turns me on this term from Battlestar Galactica, nerd that he is and proud of it!) tray underneath the radio in your car, that’s what it’s for, to discard your nicotine big bad butts.
Why do you smokers (I’m generalizing here, so prove me wrong folks!) think that you can discard your butts any where you like. If you don’t like to use the car ash tray to discard your butts, why not use a cup or some other containers, leave it in your car and THEN dump it in the proper place…THE TRASH CAN! It’s not rocket science here folks. Would you like it if your yard is littered with butts for your little younglings to sample, be it children or aninals? I didn’t think so!
Why does this bother me so? Well, first of all, I hate litterbugs and according to this, there are 4.5 trillion cigarette butts discarded yearly around the parks, sidewalks and public places, in this case…the streets. There are 165 chemicals in cigarettes, and when it’s not properly discarded, it can be detrimental to not only the many birds or small animals that ingest them thinking that it’s food. But it has been the causes of many devastating fires and enviromental damages.
If you decide to kill yourself slowly by lighting up, at least do the rest of us, humans and animals alike, a favor…discard your butts in an ash tray. That’s what it was meant for. AND DON’T BE A FLICKER!
OH MY GOSH!!!
This is like one of my biggest pet peeves too!! I hate it!!! Why are smokers so inconsiderate and selfish.
Well, I could go on & on about this, but I’ll stop now.
Not to mention, flicking causes fires when it’s dry out. One really dry summer we had fires constantly along the interstate from idiotards throwing their still lit butts out the window. So lame…
I hate this too.
I am totally with you on this. Not only is it bad enough that you are blowing smoke into MY air and the air my child breaths, but now you’re throwing your smelly, toxin-filled trash on our streets, our lawns, our walkways too!?!? Give me a break! It is my opinion that smoking is a VERY selfish ‘habit’ for these reasons.
GREAT blog!
YEAH! Someone else with the same pet peeve as me. I secretly desire to have a reader-board in my van so that when I see something like that I can flash a sign at them that says, “YOU BAD SMOKER - SHAME ON YOU!”
I’m so with ya on this!!! My mom and I came up with a bumper sticker that says exactly what you said, “KEEP YOUR BUTTS TO YOURSELF!!!”
I HATE it when people do that!! Especially out here in So. California where most wildfires begin near freeways (Duh?! Fires?!!)). I take down the license plates numbers now and call a Highway Patrol friend.
I f’g HATE people who do that. It’s the rudest frigging thing in the entire world. If you don’t want to put your cigarette out in your frigging car, then DON’T FRICKING LIGHT UP in your car. God, I hate smokers. Bless you for posting this, actually; I’m totally relieved to find I’m not the only one this irritates. And Tony? You RULE!
Right on!
Someone has started the habit of using the garden space two feet from our apartment door as their personal ashtray and it’s driving me insane. I have twice fished a butt out of Annabelle’s mouth. It’s so disgusting and harmful.
Dave, my husband, occasionally points out the mom driving a minivan full of kids with a pro-life bumper sticker on it who happens to be lighting up with all the windows rolled up and the AC on. Such hypocrisy!
With all the drought warnings and the wildfires in the news you would think people would have more sense! My first thought was that the person that would do this only cares for themselves, and then I saw a mom flick one from the window with a car full of kids. It hit me that if she doesn’t care about her own children’s health, why should we dream that she would care about public lands or forests? Grrrrrr…..