Saturday, January 24, 2009
Fun Litter
Society has a lot of fun little drawbacks. One of them is litter. A few days ago, I found a used pregnancy test in the street. I thought to myself, “really?” I mean, was this really such a concern that you had to take the test right there on the street? I can appreciate this woman’s ambition. Imagine if everyone approached all their problems with such need. Still, I wonder what kind of world that woman is going to bring her kid up in, what with her littering in it and all. Also, that plastic test isn’t biodegrading anywhere.
A more common litter is the condom. It seems the worse the neighborhood I’m in the more likely I am to find a condom. I guess if I lived in a dangerous part of town, I’d rather have sex in a back alley instead of risk getting mugged on the way home and dying before I could have sex. This may also explain the pregnancy test. If you’re going to "do it" in the streets, you might as well take care of some other business out there as well.
The most annoying litter today has to be the cell phone. Whenever a new technology becomes cheap, it starts becoming litter. Writable CDs were the “in” litter five years ago (not surprising given most people’s taste in trendy music) but now cell phones have become the tech junk of the day. I get it, you’re out of minutes. That doesn’t mean you have to smash your phone on the street. You could just get more minutes.
I'll admit, I don't miss all the smashed glass bottles. They're still around but, plastic as really reduced their numbers even if it's fucking up the environment.
A more common litter is the condom. It seems the worse the neighborhood I’m in the more likely I am to find a condom. I guess if I lived in a dangerous part of town, I’d rather have sex in a back alley instead of risk getting mugged on the way home and dying before I could have sex. This may also explain the pregnancy test. If you’re going to "do it" in the streets, you might as well take care of some other business out there as well.
The most annoying litter today has to be the cell phone. Whenever a new technology becomes cheap, it starts becoming litter. Writable CDs were the “in” litter five years ago (not surprising given most people’s taste in trendy music) but now cell phones have become the tech junk of the day. I get it, you’re out of minutes. That doesn’t mean you have to smash your phone on the street. You could just get more minutes.
I'll admit, I don't miss all the smashed glass bottles. They're still around but, plastic as really reduced their numbers even if it's fucking up the environment.
# posted by MaximumTacolord @ 4:47 PM 
