Gum chewing ethics

In the urinal lies a pink wrinkled gob of gum. It disgusts me that someone would be so unthinking to deposit their discard in a place where someone would have to do something unnecessarily distasteful to tidy the fixture.

It got me thinking about all the places where I have encountered gum wads. I have stepped on soft wads of gum in parking lots and on sidewalks, stuck to the underside of a table, and my backside stuck to seat backs or bottoms. Any unexpected encounter I have had with those multicolored sticky nuggets has been unpleasant, annoying, and frustrating.

Where you discard your gum says a lot about the belief you have of your relationship to the world and your fellow human beings.