Maybe I'm overdramatizing. Or maybe it really is the little things.
This picture is not of a one-time event. Every week, residents of my apartment complex leave their bags of trash just underneath the trash chute, and drop their cardboard instead of bringing it downstairs to the recycling bins.
That silver door in the wall? The one right over the bag of trash? That's the chute.
Unless it's the same lazy teenager doing this every time, I can't imagine what the losers leaving their trash on the floor are thinking, or how they respond to everyday life. What kind of person just drops garbage and expects someone else to pick it up? (Except, as I said, for a lazy teenager? I'm not saying all teens are lazy, of course - but we've all known or been the kid who would drop the bag after being told by an annoying parent to take out the trash.)
If those doing it are adults, how embarrassing for the rest of us. (And how much of a pain for the crew that has to clean it - I wonder if they're tempted to install cameras so they can track the trash, let themselves into the culprit's apartment, and dump it all over their floor.)
5 comments:
UGH! I can't believe that. We had those same chutes in our college dorms, and I never saw a bag in the hallway. We did have it get clogged a few times because people would throw things in that didn't fit, but even then, NEVER a bag in the hallway.
That is genuinely pitiful.
I can believe it! I had a neighbor across the hall from me... he would leave his trash sitting outside his door until he was ready! Seriously... he would leave the trash bag - sometimes BAGS (plural!) out in the hall for days at a time!
Here's the kicker... the dumpster was right next - RIGHT FREAKING NEXT to where he parked his car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also... I believe they did an episode of this on Friends!
That's unbelievable...talk about "passive aggressive" behavior. Why bring it all the way to the chute, but not throw it in? Is withholding that extra 5 seconds of effort all it takes to make that person feel superior to others?
Sad.
MIA: A few days ago, a bag was hanging by the chute-door joint because a chicken bone (or some other bone) got caught in the hinge. Ick. And yeah - it is genuinely pitiful.
CHIEF: you win!
LISAY: I wonder - it must be a superiority thing, yes? "I'm too good to bother...let the maintenance staff do it. It's their job."
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I agree, this is a shame! Sadly, I would not be surprised if it is adults. Not only is it unsightly, but what about bugs (i.e. roaches). We are a lazy & pathetic society ~ well some of us at least!
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