[OC] Why is throwing trash on the floor in trains so normalised?
Today I was travelling in a train and the woman sitting opposite me was talking to me normally. Then she started eating peanuts.
She would eat them and just throw the peels on the floor.
At first I thought okay, maybe she’ll stop after a few. But she kept doing it for more than 30 minutes.
What actually bothered me more was that nobody around her said anything. Not even a look. Everyone just continued doing their own thing like this was completely normal.
And honestly I didn’t say anything either. I didn’t want to get into an argument over something so stupid.
But that’s what gets me. We’ve become so used to people littering in public places that nobody even reacts anymore.
People wouldn’t throw peanut peels all over their own living room, but somehow a train floor is fine because “someone will clean it”. It’s literally not difficult to keep the peels in a tissue or packet and throw it later.
Maybe I’m overthinking a small thing, but watching someone do this for 30+ minutes while everyone around just accepted it was genuinely frustrating.