"Act like you give a damn!"

While walking toward the Keith Albee Performing Arts Center on 4th Avenue, I overheard an elderly gentleman say to a group of teenagers, one of whom had just thrown a fast food wrapper on the sidewalk, "Young man, pick that up and throw it in that trash can. At least, act like you give a damn!"

The young man did, in fact, pick up the litter and disposed of it in one of the big black trash receptacles that are showing up all over the downtown area. The container was within ten feet of him.

Would that every person who thoughtlessly litters our streets and sidewalks would "act like you give a damn."