It may not be the only to way to retrain this tendency of the thoughtless to leave their excreta lying around for you and I to clean up, but I've found it to be personally satisfying. Maybe you will also. Slobs Slobbishness has gotten so prevalent in New York City subways, Mayor Giuliani has recently started a campaign against it . Unfortunately, slobs are everywhere. Gum-chewers hawk wads of their sticky expectorant to the sidewalk for the next poor bastard to step into.
Smokers drop butts within a few feet of the ashtray.
Where I work, people leave candy bar wrappers, half-full paper plates and soda cans on the picnic benches outside. Every other time I visit the men's room, someone has left colorful evidence that they missed a couple of the important points of potty training. I might expect this behavior from the mentally defective in the State School and Hospital down the road, but certainly not in high-tech businesses where a minimum of education is required for employment. Nevertheless, even if they have been handicapped in this fashion during childhood, most people do eventually grow up and become productive, rather than continue to be impedimenta to the rest of us. This is the person who walks one way and faces another, blundering along in confidence that everybody will stay out of his or her way.