We were on a bus today, travelling to a local town. Some time ago, I spent a few months cleaning busses at night - so it upsets me when I see people just throwing things on the bus floors. The most telling thing that I noticed when cleaning the busses was the number of used tickets thrown on the floor.
Each ticket has the type of ticket written on it - and I know that the majority of people will think that all those discarded tickets littering the floor were dropped by kids and young adults. The reality is that the gross majority of tickets on bus floors are dropped by pensioners. This is obvious on our local bus network as the tickets have OAP printed on them.
All this, despite the number of those same pensioners that 'tut-tut' when they see litter and inspite of the used ticket bins on every bus positioned conveniently next to where you buy your ticket.
Today though we saw something that really annoyed me. This nice, polite woman not only dropped her OAP free ticket on the floor but then proceeded to pop a couple of cough sweets into her mouth before scrunching up the wrappers and throwing them on the floor.
How are our children supposed to grow up to be responsible when they get it in the neck from people who are not practicing what they preach.
