Pet Peeve # 1
Category: Pet Peeve of the Week Monday, July 17, 2006 at 2:58 pmAs you can see from the title this is just #1 in a series, a new weekly column you could say.
Pet Peeve #1: People who do not properly dispose of cigarette butts!
How is it that people that normally won’t throw trash out their car doors, on the sidewalk, at the beach, or on their own lawns, indiscriminately toss their cigarette remains just about anywhere! To the offenders out there: what gives, you must realize this is pollution? Yes, they are small, but they add up. Not to mention they are toxic sticks of death. Do you really want some wild animal, your own pets, or some small child eating your cancer stick remnants? I don’t think so. Also, its a fire hazard! I couldn’t count the number of times I’ve gone behind someone and proper put out the half smoldering butt they have tossed with little regard for anything or anyone.
Pet Peeve #1.1: People who don’t obey the “No smoking within X distance of the building” rules.
This is especially annoying when the windows in your apartment are right next to the entrance to the building. The smoke stink wafts into our whole house when someone decides to smoke on the entry-way stairs, instead of the obligatory distance from the building. This happens at least once a day as our building is smoke-free and people are moronic!