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So I just moved to a new city and I live in a poorer part of town. This woman is old and walks around all the time and picks up trash. That is her putting it in a bag she keeps on her walker. One night she knocked on my door with dog treats because she saw I owned a dog and said if I see her in my yard she's just grabbing trash. Really makes you think. Do good out there. Happy 4th!
Edit: Hey I know the grammar is terrible in my title. I was on the phone and not really paying attention to what got written down. I knew imgur would tear into that one. Oh well!
jcv44wf
She's the lookout. Casing joints, bribes watchdogs so they don't bark when big job is pulled.
VeryOk
She's definitely a hoarder, that or I've just seen too many episodes of Hoarders
cat7e
The perfect disguise
fizixx
Every little bit helps.
BurtTurglar
Old lady was nosing thru my recycle bin, I came out and asked what she was doing, "looking for crafts supplies for my grandkids" they made /
BurtTurglar
Bird houses and feeders out of it. She was so cute & I felt like the biggest jerk assuming she was up to no good.
dirtycrow666
Yeah we have bums who come and pick up trash from inside our dumpster at work. They leave behind shoes and shit, so heartwarming.
DietCokeIsTheBest
People do this in Rome and leave tip jars out. Quite a nice idea for teens or homeless to make a little spare change
Migles
Are you sure she isn't a hoarder who brings the trash to her house?
FromTheBeyond
RomanticPhotos
People pollute everywhere. I only like to visit places that aren't polluted. Maybe there should be a contest to see who is cleanest city.
ChiefBriggum
There "are"...
Sweetmadness85
There ARE some good people...
mookiedoi360
Yep just picking up rubbish one of the most amazing things!! Great example wonderful person
ChicksDigTrucks
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ThatNameIsMyName
May be she is just jobless !
DeletedProfiles
The majority of people are good. Bad stuff just gets talked about more....
HmmmNoSirIDontLikeIt
" Good things never last, Bad things never die!!!"
objectreborn
Agreed. We need to herald the small heroes. Keeps us more in check than scare tactics shutting us down.
IronicUsername
I think the majority of people are neither bad nor good. Most of us aren't stabbing people but most of us aren't picking of trash either.
Rocketrickster
Most people have a hard time doing generous things to ppl they don't know and that's okay. But there's so many folks baking the most 1/2
Rocketrickster
Delicious birthday cake, giving rides to airports at 3 am, Setting up surprise parties.. you get my point. People are good to their peers
ilistentorapalot
I wouldn't say the definition of bad is stabbing someone, that' pretty far on the bad spectrum. Being bad could be considered being selfish.
ilistentorapalot
Not helping someone you could've because you might get to work late, or ignoring a call from a friend because you are "busy."
ilistentorapalot
I think bad is a spectrum, and you start ending up there naturally, because that's where you gain the most. It takes work to be a good perso
ilistentorapalot
People aren't naturally bad people, but they are naturally selfish, and selfishness can tend to be "bad"
ZBird92
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GlassTurtle
There *are* some good people in this world
suburbanhyena
I live in South Africa. There's a lady who goes to the park with her three large rotties and a plastic bag and picks up all the hobo trash
IFellOnMyKeys
That's amazing @op. This is the kind of story I really needed to hear right now. We can all be better to each other. Happy 4th!
ThompsonwithaP
There are a bad grammar in this post.
ProfaneSanction
There is some
OwenCohen
She am one
Edringtron
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greypubes
Yeah my bad. Was on the phone when I made this. Wasn't thinking
EnglishPolice
You're getting away with a warning this time. Don't let it happen again.
greypubes
Understood. Thanks for the warning
DataNet
Just the fact that he made it this far with that title says a lot.
ManifestMarmot
Plot twist: she was given a lifetime of community service for past horrific crimes on neighbor dogs.
NuttierThanAJarOfGoobers
Or people litter on purpose to keep her from killing again! I'm fun at parties.
ShiftToRun
Dun dun duuuuuuun
BritishBatman
*are
MeasuredByFive
Maybe she'll find some money
leopardspotster
There was an old lady in my neighborhood that picked up trash too. A couple wks after she passed away streets were filled with trash again.
toxcrusadr
Lots of my neighbors carry a plastic sack on walks. Otherwise it would look like a dump in a week or two. Some people are pigs.
SunnySarah20
Cashmeoutsidehowboutdat
luckygentleman
While was I hiking in a national park a few years back, I saw a local man walking around with a big bag just to clean up after people.
IveBeenOnHereForHours
i honestly don't get how people can just toss their trash (even someone small as a kleenex) onto the ground without a care in the world.
IveBeenOnHereForHours
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CwmMakesPeopleCryInScrabble
I always do this - take an extra bag when I day hike in popular spots. I've touched WAY Too much Kleenex. Purell for dayyyyyys.
margaretolson
Every morning on my walk to work I see an older man picking up trash. Nice to see
ThesePipesAreClean
I gave a homeless guy $6 at the train station but I felt I didn't have much of an option with my kids there. I'm only about 1/2 of this lady
imolegregg
Now I realize how horribly awkward my dad must have felt each time. Good memories though.
wolfcunt
Read that 1/2 as post 1 out of 2 and seriously clicked through all the replies looking for the second half of it.
imolegregg
I always used to guilt my dad into giving money, often walking up to homeless people and telling them my daddy would buy them lunch. Now,1/2
DustinDustyDust
Ur daddy shoulda smacked u upside the head and said don't talk to Fucken strangers!
airen
If my kids do that im freak, bc you should guve it to a local charity since most of them are fake or only want drugs
airen
The charity with ensure they get food and not drugs with the money
imolegregg
That's why we always bought them sandwiches or something
ThatOneGuyPablo
When i lived in the city i would sometimes offer to buy them food. Most of the time they just said they'd rather have money
Thalarctos
I've taken to the occasional practice of making care packages. Fill them with travel sized personal hygiene stuff, food, candy, water, etc.
ThatOneGuyPablo
Wouldn't give money because drugs
imolegregg
Yeah unfortunately. Our family rule has always been give things not $$. Because of that
OnsonSweemy
Jeez, let them have their drugs, as if their lives aren't shit enough.
somepersondoingsomethings
A lot of people are homeless or on rough times bc of addiction. It is destructive to subsidize it for them.
ThatOneGuyPablo
They can have them, i'm not paying for them though. I got my own drugs to buy dang
Kikipups
as long as they are happy, no?
shitsicle
No, they need a job.
cjmmeathead
No
Alrights
I ran into two guys at a starbucks on my way home i could tell they were homeless i got talking them and bought them a pizza from 1/2
Alrights
Dominos since there was one right next door, i told them to have a nice day and went home. 2/2
electronoob
basically this person is a hoarder and youre enabling.
stopitlucas
Who said she is keeping it..??
greypubes
All the trash is from people that go to the store next door. It's pretty lame
TheHoleStretcher3000
Your mom's a hoar!
dreadeyeknight
Nobody can ever win. Don't pick up trash, you're an asshole. Pick up trash, you're a hoarder. Wtf man?
ilistentorapalot
Burn all the trash where it is, you're an arsonist. Wtf indeed.