A Dirty Table At Starbucks
I was at Starbucks this morning looking forward to enjoying a large black Pike Place coffee and lemon pound cake. It was a perfect day to sit out on the patio but all the tables were full except one by the sidewalk. Eagerly getting there, I found out why because it was sadly filthy with wadded up napkins, discarded coffee lids and a line of some sticky liquid mixed with crumbs. Grabbing a wad of napkins it only took just a few seconds to wipe everything clean and toss it all into the trash. In the Boy Scouts were we were taught to ’always leave somewhere cleaner than we found it” and it would not have taken that much effort for the previous patrons to have done the same. This got me thinking — “Why didn’t they take the time to do that?” And it also raised another question of “What were those people taught to act this way?” which led to an even bigger question of “How are people taught To Live Their Lives? ” In today”s anything-goes world, it seems that most people make up their o...