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This happened a few minutes ago while I (37M of that matters) was walking my 7 month old baby in his stroller.

While we were on our walk, we stopped at a deli where I got a buttered roll. I ate it on the way home. After I picked up the second half of the roll, there was nothing weighing down the paper it was wrapped in, and the paper blew out of the tray on the bottom of the stroller, where I’d been keeping it. I tried to grab it, but it blew away before I could get a hold of it. Tried again, it blew away again. Now it’s well into a fairly busy street at the center of an intersection and continuing to blow around. I give up and start walking again.

At this point I notice a man walking a dog on the opposite side of the street. He sees me and says, “It’s ok, someone else will pick it up.”

I say, ”Well I couldn’t run into the street after it“ and gesture towards the stroller.

He says, “Ok.” I start to walk away. He then says “That’s why the neighborhood is going to shit. Nobody gives a fuck.” He continued to say more but I couldn’t hear what.

What are your thoughts? I don’t like the idea of someone else picking up my trash, but I also didn‘t think it was safe to go after the trash in the street with the stroller, or to leave my baby in the stroller on the sidewalk while I went after the trash on my own.

Like anyone who’s not an AH, I’m anti-litter. But if it’s littering or risking harm to myself and/or my baby, I’ll choose littering.

Your thoughts?