Drive Thru's
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Drive Thru's
This may seem like a ridiculous question, but when you go to a fast food drive thru and get a drink, what do you do with the straw wrapper? I know a lot of you here are against littering, as am I, but all too often I see the people in front of me throw it out the window. Have any of you ever done this?
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From: S/C Texas
I go great lengths in avoiding the drive thru.
Much rather walk in.....usually quicker too.
Most places around here have a garbage can just after the window.
If they dont, the straw wrapper gets tossed back into the bag.
Then I often eat it with my fries.
Littering sucks.
Much rather walk in.....usually quicker too.
Most places around here have a garbage can just after the window.
If they dont, the straw wrapper gets tossed back into the bag.
Then I often eat it with my fries.
Littering sucks.
Last edited by peppy; Nov 17, 2004 at 09:30 PM.
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From: Montreal Canada
i usually just toss my trash out the window but it depends where i am... i won't toss a coke can out the window in my own neighbourhood. but i don't like it messing up my vehicle and besides i live in the city and its dirty already. planet's going to die anyway so what's the difference
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From: South Texas
Nope, I just thow it on the seat or floor and then clean out my truck the next time I wash it. I got a littering fine once and ever since, I think twice about it. It was a pretty funny incident that lead up to the littering ticket. I was in the back seat and we had just left Sonic (a drive thru fast food place) and they have the styrofoam cups. Anyway, my friend was driving and she hit the brakes hard at a stop light, so my drink slips and falls, it doesn't spill, but the straw made a hole thru the side and it starts leaking. I start yelling at my friend, "open the door!" She finally opens the door and I pour out the drink, but it slips and I droped the cup. Well, as luck would have it, there was a cop right behind us who was watching the whole thing. It ended up costing $50.
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From: North Carolina
I don't litter.
But the ones that are picking it up are the people in jail doing community service on the highway. So if you litter, good job I guess.
It is pretty easy to put things in the trash though.
As far as the dru, it is the cool thing to do!
But the ones that are picking it up are the people in jail doing community service on the highway. So if you litter, good job I guess.
It is pretty easy to put things in the trash though.
As far as the dru, it is the cool thing to do!
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From: S/C Texas
Originally Posted by websthes
i usually just toss my trash out the window but it depends where i am... i won't toss a coke can out the window in my own neighbourhood. but i don't like it messing up my vehicle and besides i live in the city and its dirty already. planet's going to die anyway so what's the difference
I always thought it was a clean corner of the world.
Guess I'll just file that under Easter Bunny/Santa Claus.
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From: Tillsonburg ON
Don't confuse Quebec with Canada 
I live on a provincial highway. I can vouch for the fact that lots of Canadians throw litter out car windows. Just finished some fencing up by the highway and picked up two garbage bags of fast-food trash -- and that's only about 250 feet of frontage. Even glass Starbucks & Sobe bottles at the top of the driveway, which the garbage truck runs over and turns to shards ... nice ...
I do the same as peppy, throw it back in the bag. Then I throw the bag out next time I stop at a gas station or when I get home.
I live on a provincial highway. I can vouch for the fact that lots of Canadians throw litter out car windows. Just finished some fencing up by the highway and picked up two garbage bags of fast-food trash -- and that's only about 250 feet of frontage. Even glass Starbucks & Sobe bottles at the top of the driveway, which the garbage truck runs over and turns to shards ... nice ...
I do the same as peppy, throw it back in the bag. Then I throw the bag out next time I stop at a gas station or when I get home.
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From: Cloverdale, BC
I put the straw wrapper in the bag too. Then the bag gets taken out at the next garbage can.
And where I live in Canada, littering isn't really a problem. Most people make an attempt at the garbage can. Sometimes it goes in, sometimes it bounces off and lands on the ground. Not so much littering as it is "localized" collection. But for the most part, Greater Vancouver is quite pristine.
And where I live in Canada, littering isn't really a problem. Most people make an attempt at the garbage can. Sometimes it goes in, sometimes it bounces off and lands on the ground. Not so much littering as it is "localized" collection. But for the most part, Greater Vancouver is quite pristine.
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From: Prince George B.C.
you should see the floor of my truck....with al the garbage on it lol. Well I hate to say it guys but we up here in Canada are no more different than you folks below the 49 th. Some of us litter and others work hard to keep things clean
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From: Lolo Montana
I don't like to litter. I'll keep it until I can throw it away some where. When out on my ATV, I try to pick up as much trash as I can when riding in the hills. I really hate it when someone target shots and leaves their shells on the ground. My son and I went hunting sunday and at one spot there was 4 empty boxes of shot gun shells (50 count) and all the shells laying on the ground. I didn't pick them up. I still would be there. Got a grouse but no elk yet. The grouse was a little smaller than my deer. LOL
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I usually have like a Walmart plastic bag hanging on my F-350 cup holder for trash, when its full just toss it in the trash can. After the fast food stop,,trash goes into the bag and then into the trash can,,never out the window.
Cmon people,, Don't be a SCUMBAG !!,,Put litter in it's place,, the trash can !!
I hate seeing McDonalds, or Burger King or other trash on the road where some SCUMBAG just tossed them out the window, because there to friggin lazy to drop it in a trash can.
Later,,,,,,,,,,Mark
Cmon people,, Don't be a SCUMBAG !!,,Put litter in it's place,, the trash can !!
I hate seeing McDonalds, or Burger King or other trash on the road where some SCUMBAG just tossed them out the window, because there to friggin lazy to drop it in a trash can.
Later,,,,,,,,,,Mark
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From: The hills of No. Calif.
The last straw wrapper I used is still wadded up on the dash of my Ranger, waiting till the next clean-out...(I sure miss the old days of wall-to-wall rubber floor mats and no electronics in a truck, when you'd just open both doors and hose the cab out. At least I can still do that with the F250)
A few years back I was walking out to my car in the Wally World parking lot, (back when I didn't know any better and used to shop there,) and I saw a big wad of litter come flying out the window of a parked car. I walked over and picked it up and threw it back in, saying, "Here, I think you dropped this." It was a couple of teenage girls, and they just glared at me so I said, "Hey, I could have just taken your plate number and turned it in, it's a $1000 dollar fine, you know." They drove off, probably tossed it out the window somewhere else. I tried. I hate litterbugs. -TD
A few years back I was walking out to my car in the Wally World parking lot, (back when I didn't know any better and used to shop there,) and I saw a big wad of litter come flying out the window of a parked car. I walked over and picked it up and threw it back in, saying, "Here, I think you dropped this." It was a couple of teenage girls, and they just glared at me so I said, "Hey, I could have just taken your plate number and turned it in, it's a $1000 dollar fine, you know." They drove off, probably tossed it out the window somewhere else. I tried. I hate litterbugs. -TD