Evolving.
Published on August 16, 2004 By Angloesque In Blogging
I hate teenage girls. Not all teenage girls, actually; just the sixteen-year-olds driving brand new Mitsubishis who toss their burning carcinogenic litter out the window and then flip me off when I honk at them, and insolently flip another smoking piece of tobacco at the light just before they turn off.

Now let me say, I have nothing against sixteen-year-olds, or girls, or smokers, and I have only a bit of contempt for parents who buy their kids brand new cars when they get their license, but I have got something against litterbugs and hate me if you will, but I would do anything to turn them in. Sorry, but the earth has enough problems as it is, and it's my friends and family members who go off every summer to fight fires. So yeah, I take issue with people who throw out burning cigarette butts.

And here's the rub: I have her license plate # and I probably could've stopped to pick up a cigarette butt, but I read once that when this happens, you're supposed to be able to ID the offender in a lineup. But what police officer in the world, or in our metro area, would take this case? So what's a concerned, no, scratch that, very pissed off citizen to do? (I thought about rear-ending her stupid new car, therby enabling myself to get a good look at her, but I had bad luck last time I rear ended a sixteen-year-old; turns out she was the sheriff's daughter. I have something against sheriff's daughters now. )

Comments
on Aug 16, 2004
Wow! To lead such a life that *this* is a MAJOR concern to you?

Dude...come out here and live a week where I do....your whole additude on life, litter, smoking will undergo a RADICAL change....

One, that from the sounds of it, could use some radical changing.....

>> I would do anything to turn them in.

Humm...life mission?

>> But what police officer in the world, or in our metro area, would take this case?

I would hope...none.

Personally I'd hope that they would have much better things to do with there time.

>> I thought about rear-ending her stupid new car

*This* is what I'd hope they were better spending there time doing...watching for people who would for a second thinnk that "rear ending" a persons car was somehow an advisable course of action!

>> I have something against sheriff's daughters now

Sir, I can imagine that you have something aginst a lot of things....

Get some help...life's WAY too short to go around carrying the load that you do.....

Peace
on Aug 16, 2004
Yes sir, that smiley face at the end should show you how high this ranks on my list of "MAJOR concerns."

--"Sir" and "Dude" Angloesque.

on Aug 16, 2004
I can't stand that either! Grrrrrr!
on Aug 16, 2004
Ooo! I HATE it when people fling burning materials out of their cars! It burns me up. (pun intended.) I always try to honk at them, especially if their detritus comes anywhere close to touching my vehicle. And I always want to pull up next to them and berate them loudly. Don't their cars have ashtrays?? Does the road look like an ashtray? Are they trying to set my car on fire? Argh!
on Aug 16, 2004
It was their insolence on par with the littering that really got to me. Grr.