Common Courtesy

I have noticed another thing about the local Tim Hortons.  The clientele likes to get up and leave without throwing away their trash.  For me this is odd.  It is about common decency.  Anyone who gets up and just leaves their trash on the table is telling me that they don't care about other people.  When I come into the store I want to sit down and start typing.  I like it when there is a place for me to do it.  But when the majority of people just stand up and walk away from their mess it means very quickly, especially when the store is busy, there will be no place to sit down.  

Sure the store pays people to go around and clear up the messes on the floor and to wipe the tables but very often if you are sitting down and eating you are not going to leave any mess if you just pick up the paper and the disposable cups.  When the store is busy there is often only enough staff to deal with e orders coming in, often a store does not have enough staff to deal with those orders very swiftly.  So how can they stop and go out to clear the tables that people have left garbage on.  

Common curtesy is like common sense, anyone can have it, but unlike common sense it is something that you can cultivate—all it requires is empathy.  You know that feeling that you get when you think what it might feel like to be someone else.  More specifically the person who wants to sit down at the table you have just left your garbage at or e person who has to go by and pick up your garbage because you are too lazy to.  Just look around, there is probably a garbage close to where you are sitting and maybe one just outside the door.

Pick you shit up, or tip the staff who does it for you.