Trashy

The word just stings, doesn't it?

"Trashy."

It burns me up when people refer to Speedway as "trashy." It burns me up even more when people make Speedway "trashy." Just today, there was a post on Nextdoor.com about trash blowing through the parking lot at the Speedway Supercenter (where Kroger is).

A photo:

Credit: Greg Smith

How hard is it for Kroger to have an employee empty the garbage can? How long could it possibly take? It's not as though it's a mystery what happens when garbage cans overflow.

To be fair, of course, how hard is it for people to just wait until they can find someplace to throw their trash away where it is not a certainty that the trash will simply wind up on the ground? How hard is it for people to take some responsibility for the community in which they live? That starts with throwing trash away in the proper place.

I have no idea who the problem is. I have seen rants on Nextdoor about people simply dropping their trash anywhere they want, throwing cigarette butts on the ground, etc.

To all concerned (the store owners, the commercial landlord, those who litter): Things are the way they are because you are the way you are. Picking up your trash is not someone else's responsibility. It is yours. If you don't respect your own property and your own community, how can you ever expect anyone else to respect it?

It's called pride, people. Take some. While we're at it, they're called clues: get one.