ashtrays
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From: Iowa
it dont bother me much either but i was in south dakota for christmas with family this year and we were in sioux falls very big city anyway my dad was driving and he through a ciggarette out the window and got pulled over and recieved a $500 fine for it, kind of pointless, i also see all the time in my little home town at the gas station people empty there ashtrays out in the parking lot, makes a mess but o well.
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Well I am a smoker and it ticks me off to see someone empty an ash tray on the ground. I was working at a gas station a few years back and just happened to be pulling the wrecker around when I saw this young lady dump a big old ashtray on our lot. They were parked at the curb against the building and I blocked them in and made them pick up every last butt before they could leave. They were lipping off about never coming to our station again and I told them we probably wouldn't miss them using our rest rooms as they hadn't even bought anything.
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It drives me up the wall.. I smoke and have smoked for a long time. Never once have I emptied my ashtry anywhere other than a trashcan or dumpster.
If your going to smoke, at least have the common curtousy to take care of your waste
If your going to smoke, at least have the common curtousy to take care of your waste
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It ticks me off as i had a friend who's really nice gran prix got burned up by the guy next to him tossing a cig out the window....it bounced off his windsheild, rolled down through the cowl, and started the motor on fire...i guess its one of those things that seems impossible to happen but it did....
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Originally posted by truckertaz
It drives me up the wall.. I smoke and have smoked for a long time. Never once have I emptied my ashtry anywhere other than a trashcan or dumpster.
If your going to smoke, at least have the common curtousy to take care of your waste
It drives me up the wall.. I smoke and have smoked for a long time. Never once have I emptied my ashtry anywhere other than a trashcan or dumpster.
If your going to smoke, at least have the common curtousy to take care of your waste
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It doesnt bother me. I dont see any difference in doing that, and dumping your ashes out the window as u drive, or throwing the butt out as u drive. One way or another your ashes are going to end up outside. No worse than dumping your grill ashes or any other ashes on the ground. Ashes is Ashes. Throwing a butt out the window or on the ground is no different than throwing anything else on the ground, like a bottle out the window or a wrapper or anything else. Oh and no i do not smoke, but it still doesnt bother me.
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I've done more than my fair share of cleaning roads for community projects. I can't stand it when people toss out butts. Ashes are fine, they biodegrade and blow away. Every spring at work we have to clean out the trash from the snow piles. I refuse to pick out the butts since I have never smoked.
And for the smokers that don't get it. Your disrespect for keeping places clean is what draws the most flaq against smoking.
And for the smokers that don't get it. Your disrespect for keeping places clean is what draws the most flaq against smoking.
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It further irritates me that anyone in todays well informed world would smoke. The idea that anyone would devalue their vehicle ny smoking in it is even harder to understand. You loose at least $1,000 at trade in if it smells of smoke.
I have had car and truck buyers open a used vehicles door and no mater the outward or interior appearance refuse to consider the car because :"It's been smoked in"
In our area there are small towns that would hit you with a $500 littering fine if they caught emptying an ashtray in the street.
I have had car and truck buyers open a used vehicles door and no mater the outward or interior appearance refuse to consider the car because :"It's been smoked in"
In our area there are small towns that would hit you with a $500 littering fine if they caught emptying an ashtray in the street.
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You've been talking to too many car dealers.
Give me an hour to clean my truck, and prove to me it's ever been smoked in. You're more likely to have an issue with the grease stains and occasional dent. That's a fallacy. The issue is that if the car reeks of smoke, has cig burns in the seats, ect, then it hasn't been taken care of. Now THAT is going to drop your value.
We're not all disgusting slobs, be realistic.
Give me an hour to clean my truck, and prove to me it's ever been smoked in. You're more likely to have an issue with the grease stains and occasional dent. That's a fallacy. The issue is that if the car reeks of smoke, has cig burns in the seats, ect, then it hasn't been taken care of. Now THAT is going to drop your value.
We're not all disgusting slobs, be realistic.
