It Used to Break My Heart to See Someone Litter. Now It Just Makes Me Angry.

When I was much younger, there was a commercial that got to me even as a child. It showed someone driving down the highway, throwing out a bag of garbage. I think it panned to where the garbage landed, and then up a persons body to the face of in older American Indians' face. Then a tear rolls down his face. I want that commercial to come back. Then I would like to see those trash bags that hang off the emergency brake or hood release come back. Anything to remind people not to litter.

It use to break my heart to see someone litter. Now it just makes me angry. Driving home one day, I was about the pull into my driveway, when out the window of the car in front of me, comes a bag of trash,  breaking open as it hits my lawn. I followed the car to the end of the street, got out at the stop sign and requested they come back and pick up the trash on my lawn.  The young pair suggest I do something else with the trash. I suggested that I had thier license plate number and would happily turn it over to the policeman parked nearby. They did pick up the trash, but I was cussed out while they cleaned.

I am not sure when people started being okay with littering again. It was a big deal when I was younger. There were signs posted, big fines, media attention to curb this behavior. It seems such a simple thing, to wait to get home or where you are going to dispose of your trash. Am I wrong?