Thread: Trash at the Ballpark

Took a break from work, was visiting with the wife, and she was watching a talk program on TV. The issue they were discussing was disposition of trash at sporting events. After finishing a bag of peanuts, I put the bag under my seat. Similarly, for empty cups and any trash I generate. Now, I am not a slob, and fairly often pick up trash off streets and care it to trash bins. Somewhere, sometime I understood that stashing trash under the seat is the proper way to dispose of trash at sporting events in the stadium setting. While others on the show thought it was thoughtless, inappropriate behavior.

So, trash at a sporting stadium event... to stash under seat, or not to stash under seat.

That is the question!

When you answer, please indicate your approximate age. (Seriously.)

Nope, I do not do that.
What I bring in, I make sure to bring out.
There's usually a bin at the exit, so there it goes.

I am 44

I tend to stash under the seat as well. I think it is a problem inherint to stadiums and there really is no easy access to garbage bins while there.

I think it is fine to stash uner the seat as long as you throw it away in the proper container the next time you get up, whether you are leaving or just going to the concession stand/restroom.
I am 33.

I just thought of an angle on this question that I would like to know as well. Your approximate age decade. In fact, I just edited my initial message to ask people to include their age with their response.

I am 58 years old. And, going to sporting events is MUCH different than it was when I was a kid. You dressed differently. (Wearing a suit was common.) And, heckling and booing was very common, and accepted. (It is almost a thing of the past now, and I think it would annoy fellow fans now.) And, more.

Undoubtedly etiquette has changed at sporting events. Maybe trash disposal etiquette has also changed, and I never picked up on it.

So, what is your age, and what is your opinion on trash disposal?

[QUOTE=LarryAndro;829160]I just thought of an angle on this question that I would like to know as well. Your approximate age decade. In fact, I just edited my initial message to ask people to include their age with their response.

I am 58 years old. And, going to sporting events is MUCH different than it was when I was a kid. You dressed differently. (Wearing a suit was common.) And, heckling and booing was very common, and accepted. (It is almost a thing of the past now, and I think it would annoy fellow fans now.) And, more.

Undoubtedly etiquette has changed at sporting events. Maybe trash disposal etiquette has also changed, and I never picked up on it.

Originally Posted by LarryAndro

So, what is your age, and what is your opinion on trash disposal?

35

I live in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I just send an email to Mark Cuban, Dallas Mavericks owner, asking this question. He started out a total fan. Now, he's an owner. Mark is good about responding to emails. We'll see if he answers, and what he says if he answers.

You got this from a "womens talk show"? Really? Larry I am surprised, actually quite appalled. Go take a testosterone shot. LOL

I am 51 in mule years.

I'll put it under my seat until the day a person comes around asking to take it out of my hands, or I get up to use the bathroom or beerstand etc., The way I see it, I'm a guest at their ballpark. I've paid for a seat, and my patronage, along with the others, keeps the sports franchise in business.
What I am not clear in your OP, is just who is the ones complaining about the litter? The owners? or society's complainers and all around do gooders?

Originally Posted by JohnnyCakeDC

I'll put it under my seat until the day a person comes around asking to take it out of my hands, or I get up to use the bathroom or beerstand etc., The way I see it, I'm a guest at their ballpark. I've paid for a seat, and my patronage, along with the others, keeps the sports franchise in business.
What I am not clear in your OP, is just who is the ones complaining about the litter? The owners? or society's complainers and all around do gooders?

So I can leave my garbage under the seat on an airplane, a bus, a train, a taxi, etc?
After all... I have paid for the seat, and it's my patronage that keeps them in business.

BTW, at a stadium I do leave my garbage under the seat because they don't give you anywhere else to put it.
I actually thought that's what you were supposed to do with it.