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Non-living things can’t have manners.

Ever since a Taco Bell garbage can audibly thanked me, I’ve been hypersensitive about inanimate objects being “polite.”

Trash can’t be grateful.

Category: Miscellanea

7 Responses

  1. 1
    Phoebe says:

    Did you look for a dumpster diver?

  2. 2
    Tim says:

    Ack! I’m with you there.

    Reminds me of the time my wife and I were at Disneyland and she started flirting with a trash can who then proceeded to insult me to my face. I have no honor left!

  3. 3
    Will says:

    You evidently have never talked to a jar of Miracle Whip.

  4. 4

    A talking and moving trashcan at Disney World once fascinated and scarred my daughter. You just don’t expect it. You expect more of an Oscar the Grouch type sentiment.

  5. 5
    Molly Piper says:

    As a kid we used to go to this dumpy amusement park that had talking animal trash cans. The trash cans were the highlight for us!!!

    I still remember the pig one. She said, “I’m Petunia the Paper Eater!”

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    Idhrendur (Stephen May) says:

    Perhaps.

    More interesting is the idea that we should have good manners towards (some) non-living objects. There are people spending the time to consider and clarify the ethics involved.

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