I was on an express train the other day. It’s amazingly clean, I don’t know why. Perhaps it’s because we pay five times more expensive than the economy train, or perhaps because no sellers are allowed to go inside except when it stops. Or because it’s an air conditioning one… like there is a connection. LOL. Anyway, all the seats were taken and some unlucky passengers spread a piece of newspaper on the floor to sit. Guess what, when they got off, most of them left the papers scattered on the floor. Sigh.
On the economy train, it’s worse. Everyone is littering. So many fruits and snack and drink sellers walk to and fro, I call it a train market.
On one occasion, I saw a young couple bought some oranges and they ate it there, threw away the orange’s skin under their seat and happily chatted away (bla bla bla).
A mother gave a plastic glass of drinking water to her little son; when he finished drinking, she asked him to throw away the glass outside the train from the window. (It’s my pleasure, Mom!)
A young girl wiped her tissue on her sweating face, and innocently threw the tissue away, it landed on her shoes and she kicked it off. Good job!
An old woman reached into her bag and found a candy wrapped in a plastic wrap. She peeled it off, swallowed the candy, and blew away the wrap which then swayed by the wind (because she sat near the window) and it swirled and then landed on the floor.
A man puffed his last cigarette, and unwillingly he threw his cigarette end on the floor and stepped on it to put out the fire. If it’s okay, maybe he would puff all the cigarette until it’s gone. (What a life!)
The list seems endless… (Remember, I only mentioned the train) and this happens everyday. No one seems to care. Littering is definitely becoming our culture, it’s part of our dear life.
Such a shame….
