Why must people throw stuff out the window while driving?

Today there was rain and I knew a slower than normal day ahead, but this really rubbed me the wrong way. My story starts with my normal drive in and I am following a lincoln onto the On ramp. For whatever reason, I can see his window open. Here I am thinking why is his window open? He’s going to / is get drenched.

And then the reason comes out. Not only did he fail to follow the rules of the road and only accelerated up to a constant 80 km/hr to merge on the traffic (which made it lot harder for me to merge because there was a big truck coming in the right lane), he starts sticking his hand out and what do I see next? These small pieces that were white came flying at my car and just bouncing off my hood! Now they weren’t big enough to cause damage or anything like that, but it just rubs me the wrong way that people are polluting and annoying other drivers by basically throwing stuff at their cars!

If I had drove by him and stuck out my hand with some garbage and hit his car he’d be furious. Why does he do it to others? No respect on the roads these days. People throw stuff out, drive really slow and merge unsafely and just are a general nuisance. Keep a bag or something in your car to throw your garbage in and then throw it out when you get home in the garbage.

This also happens when with cigarette smokers. Fine, go ahead and pollute your lungs. That is your choice but having your cigarette flung out your window to hit my windshield or car is not necessary! Thats why car manufacturers put an ashtray in your car. Use it! Don’t have one? Don’t Smoke! It’s your car and you can do whatever but stop throwing your cigarette “butts” onto the road. One time my friend was driving and a driver did this and the cigarette still litten got stuck on his windshield wiper. He had to pull over and throw out the cigarette. Was that necessary? No. People need to drive with respect. If they did that to a cop, they would be pulled over in a heartbeat, but they do it to everyone else without care.

This reminds me of the time when I was stuck in traffic to see someone conveniently left their Tim Hortons cup right on the yellow line in the left lane. Like they were literally stuck in traffic and instead of waiting to get to work to throw it out they must have opened their door, put the cup exactly on the line and drove off. Like why do that? Stop being so lazy.

End of my rant today, but for the respect of all drivers stop throwing your garbage out the window!