Mr. Blue Volov

Hey Mr. Blue Volov! Are you kidding me!

Really, you’re going to make this drive worse than it already is?

The cross-island parkway is already a slow and painful death without you throwing your trash out the window, can you not. On the rare occasion, there isn’t any traffic, the ride can even be pleasant; with the views of the Little Neck Bay, so please stop ruining it for me.

Do people really still litter?

Sure, I’ve seen the occasional chewed up piece of gum flying past the car, but you, you threw your empty extra-large Mcdonald’s cup out the window. You opened the window, stuck your hand out like you were holding the Olympic Torch, and bam, dropped it like you were dropping the mic at the end of the State of the Union.

Excuse me sir, but who do you think you are?

After the cup nearly missed my car, I began thinking about littering. Why do people litter? Laziness. Instead of holding onto their empty bottles people just drop them to the ground. I don’t understand why you can’t hold onto your trash until you find a garbage can. And I really can’t understand why people throw trash out of their cars. You have space to put your garbage, the passenger seat, the back of the car, the car door pocket, so why do you chuck it out the window?

You’re killing the environment. You’re dangering fellow drivers. You’re risking a fine.

Why can’t you wait until you get to your destination to throw your trash away or maybe even recycle it? I know big steps from throwing trash out the window to recycling and being environmentally conscious, but you can do it.

As I continued driving, I noticed more and more people littering. Nothing as big as your McDonald’s cup, but littering nonetheless. I guess I hadn’t been conscious of this epidemic, but now that I was, I couldn’t stop seeing it. Peanut shells, cigarette butts, pieces of paper, all flying out of car windows.

Imagine your house covered in empty fast food containers, half-eaten apples, cigarette butts, peanut shells, pieces of paper, etc.

You wouldn’t treat your house like that, so why do you treat the earth like that. Surprise! The earth is your home, so treat it as such.

Stop killing the fish and birds, stop polluting the ocean, stop contaminating the groundwater, stop destroying the grass, plants, and trees, and stop being lazy Mr. Blue Volvo.