re: Trash in Louisiana

I don’t think people realize how common it was to chuck your trash out the window on the highway back in the day

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Those people are not at a point where they can understand why this is a problem

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I don't think it's education. They just don't give a shite. They have horrible lives and want to make things bad for other people also.

Is it just a Louisiana thing?

Worked w a guy in the 80's when I was going to LSU who would routinely throw his fast food trash out the window whenever he was done. He was a local, went to Glen Oaks.

I gave him so much shite about it he did change his behavior in front of me. Instead of throwing trash, bottles, etc. out the window, he'd throw them in to the bed of his truck.

Here in Virginia I had a lady blow the horn at me and give me the finger when I threw an apple core on the side of the road when we were waiting in traffic.

Education solves a lot of problems. More importantly, it allow people to break these cycles. It starts at home because bad parents unravel what good schools and teachers try and do. I have not clue how to make people better parents. The next step is to take a hard look at our state's curriculum and make sure we are teaching actual life skills as well as exposing kids to trades, STEM, etc. Then you identify the kids that come from troubled backgrounds. You have to separate them from other kids with those same background. Divide and conquer so to speak. Surround them around kids who have a chance and maybe they pick up some good habits

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Why don’t you get out there and do your part instead of complaining about it on a message board.

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I do.

Biggest pet peeve is littering to me. Nothing makes my blood boil more than seeing people litter. Whenever I worked at CFA, having to pick up trash in the parking lots, because people would eat their meals, and throw the entire bag out their window and into the parking lot, had to be the most aggravating thing. It was just too much work to have to walk at most 100 feet to a trash can and throw your food away. It was crazy how mad I’d get while picking up trash. Just something about having no respect just pisses me off.

One time I was working in the drive thru line, and this bitch comes through, and says, “My fries be too hard so I threw them out in the parking lot and you need to give me a medium order of fries for free.” I slowly said, “You threw the fries out in the parking lot? So in other words you littered?” And she got super pissed and went off about how we messed up her order and how she deserved to throw the fries into the parking lot because of how hard they were and all that BS. It’s just crazy to me the things that go through peoples heads. The laziness, the disrespect for your community and businesses, especially ones who are very nice and respectful to their customers.

Anytime I go fishing in the winter from the bank, I always try to spend 10-15 minutes at the end of my trip picking up the trash around the area I fished. It’s impossible to pick up every piece of trash that’s out there, but people just don’t understand the consequences of littering.

I always know when I’m back in Louisiana based on the trash on the interstate. I can also tell which airport gate is for New Orleans based off the amount of obese/lazy people needing to be wheeled to the gate.

Littering should be a mandatory 2 week sentence on a work crew picking up trash.

This state is a lost cause, and has been so for about four decades now..

America lately itself, if not without a hard correction in the near future, is trending much the same.

The sooner folks accept Steve Bannon's "the US is in managed decline" as fact, their sanity and heartbreak can get on board with the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 7 Stages of Grief model, the better.

Charles Murray 'Coming Apart', Pat Buchanon 'Suicide of a Superpower', David Schein 'Decline of America', Douglas Murray 'The War on the West', Thomas Sowell's ' Barbarians Inside the Gates',etc..are must reads.