I don't really understand the urge to litter. Why can't people take their trash home and throw it away? I live on a fairly busy street and two or three times a week I find something discarded in my yard, usually right along the road, but sometimes tossed with some force, deep into the yard. Cigarette packs, beer cans, soda bottles, fast food wrappers, paper cups, even this week a pencil, have all graced my yard at one time or another. I pick them up and throw them away and don't get angry but I do wish sometimes that I could teach a litterer a lesson.
A friend of mine learned a hard lesson about littering several years ago. She and her husband and young baby were travelling by car and driving through a fairly remote area when the baby needed a diaper change. According to her story there wasn't a good place to pull over and stop so she changed the diaper (her husband was driving) as they drove along. She was using a wonderful new invention of the time, disposable diapers! After the change she realized that, while the baby was clean and happy,they now had a car full of really baaaad smell, so, seeing that no one was around, she decided to toss the diaper out the window. Bad idea. As she rolled down the window and tossed the diaper it was caught by a gust of wind and wrapped itself around the antenna, where it boldly waved, after spewing its contents along the side of the car, until they finely (she said it seemed like hours) found a pull off where the could deposit the offending diaper in a trash barrel and do some cleam up. Of course the previously deserted stretch of road was now full of cars full of cheerfully honking witnesses to their folly. After telling this story my friend assured me that she has never again thrown anything out of a car window.
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