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Another grocery store / junk food aisle find. I kind of understand what would motivate someone to bring their coffee into a store. You just went through the drive through, there's still some coffee left in the cup and you don't want to leave it in the car because it's just going to get cold, so you bring it in with you.

What I don't understand, is finishing the coffee two or three aisles in and leaving the empty cup on the closest shelf. Now, to be fair, there are no garbage cans right there. That said, there are garbage cans by the checkout counters, as well as many by the entrance. How hard is it to keep the empty cup in your cart until you walk by a trash bin? Not very. However, I think there's this sort of unconscious thinking behind the action that goes something like this: "Someone is paid to clean up, let them do it." Personally, I feel bad for the poor minimum wage schmuck who has to go through each aisle and nook-and-cranny to look for the garbage lazy people leave behind. But that's just me.

RELATED: was at the self-checkout counter this past weekend (the one by the attendant's desk). There were some hand baskets at the end of the aisle, right next to a very large garbage can, and in the hand basket was a discarded, empty Horton cup. *SIGH* I wish I had my camera.

(taken Rothesay Avenue SuperStore | 26 April 09)