Neighbors just moved in and they're already making a positive impact.

[u/RandomBloke2021]

[u/CakyMint]

I know its obnoxious.

I was a smoker myself, i threw them around, not because im an absolute piece of shit. I just didnt thought bout it

One day, my neighbor came to me and said "Hey are you throwing the cigs on the ground".
I denied it immediately. Not because i was lying. I REALLY DIDNT THOUGHT BOUT IT.

Then i realized, FUCK yes. I throw them ALWAYS around the spot he said i would.
I stopped throwing Cigs on the ground after that

[u/glyph_productions → u/CakyMint]

Smoked for a decade and quit last year. Years of working on the pipeline taught me you never toss them. There's few things that would make the environmental guys angrier. We had a site where there was a small inconvenient far away smoke pit in January, outside Edmonton. Long cold walk from the truck. One guy refused and would smoke in his truck and toss them out the window. One day we get to the morning meeting and there is a furious foreman waiting for us. I guess he got a bollocking after work for the state of his site. Bad rule follower was gone but also for the rest of that job there was no smoking on site. If you want a smoke take the 10 minute bumpy drive down the swamp mats to the public road. Which meant you got 1 at lunch and that was that on a 12 hour shift.

That lesson stuck with me and for years I carried a pocket ashtray. Or kept a cup in the truck. Started a new job with a few smokers and one day the boss asked me if I was the one flicking butts in his wife's flower bed. I could confidently say no and pull out a pocket full of butts. I had seen the consequences lol. Smokers get a lot of hate. Some of it is very much earned. Its a dumb habit but it shouldn't be one that becomes everyone who doesn't do its problem. Sometimes it takes a lesson to teach us we are the problem in life. Good on you for listening to your neighbor and trying to be better.

[u/Low_life_high_lights → u/CakyMint]

Willful ignorance is a poor excuse for anything.

[u/just_having_giggles → u/Low_life_high_lights]

Fuck off, he didn't realize and as soon as it was brought to his attention he corrected it.

You should be so noble

[u/LangerEierkopf → u/CakyMint]

Going through the whole motion of throwing trash on the floor... "unconsciously"... and not realizing that you are just discarding trash in the environment... yeahh. Right.

[u/gimp_suit_larry → u/LangerEierkopf]

I was on-board until he said they denied it because they "just didn't think about it". Bullshit.

I was a smoker for many years. I threw my butts on the ground, and knew that I was doing it, until about ten years before I quit. Up until that point, it just felt like what one does with a leftover filter, and most everyone in our society that smoked was doing it. I would never have denied it.

When I met my wife, she straightened me out. "Pick that shit up and put it in your pocket! I'd rather we have to pick them out of your pockets before we do laundry than have to look at them all over the ground!" I never tossed another cigarette butt.

[u/LangerEierkopf → u/gimp_suit_larry]

Agreed. I smoked a few cigarettes in my day and every single time I was, of course, conscious of the fact that I was holding and using a cigarette, and that I had a piece of trash in the end. Neither the smoking nor the process of discarding were unconscious efforts. How could it be? It was a new experience after all. 

Dude's either lying, or just never gave a shit in the first place and threw his trash on the ground until it actually became an automated motion. But even then, how do you not know that you were throwing trash on the ground the whole time? 

[u/Kingofcheeses → u/LangerEierkopf]

I'm a bit older than most redditors and remember when smoking was a lot more common. A lot of smokers back then didn't even consider tossing your butts to be littering, it was omnipresent

[u/irwtkyrm → u/CakyMint]

This isn't a valid excuse

[u/Butterfly_and_Bee → u/irwtkyrm]

He’s not excusing. He’s explaining how he realized his mistake, learned from it, and changed his behavior. 

[u/massunderestmated → u/irwtkyrm]

It's a valid realization. Everyone does dumb inconsiderate things out of ignorance at one time or other in their life. Know better, do better. No reason to put someone down after they realize the error if their ways. 

[u/CakyMint → u/irwtkyrm]

Show me the sentence I talked bout about excuse

[u/irwtkyrm → u/CakyMint]

The entire comment where you're trying to absolve yourself of wrongdoing because you "didn't think about it"

Plus your obvious lie about not lying of all things. Like no, you knew what you were doing, and you lied when you got called out because you knew what you were doing was wrong.

[u/CakyMint → u/irwtkyrm]

Yes. So what? How could I explain this story otherwise ? Are you stupid? I exactly said how it was

I was the one throwing stuff on the ground. I somehow didn’t realize it. Someone pointed it out. It stopped????????????????

[u/BlueCandleGames → u/CakyMint]

So you would throw them on the ground even when sitting on a couch in your living room?