No mo' go & throw

Gas prices have dropped a bit, and we’re happy. Yes, it’s odd to be happy about gasoline that costs $3.60 gallon, but it’s all relative.

Maybe the mini-rollback will end the growing epidemic of “go and throw.” I refer, of course, to the phenomenon of truckers urinating in plastic bottles and tossing them out the window.

Apparently the recent price surge forced truckers to drive slower to conserve fuel. Then they didn’t want to stop (and go!) at truck stops. So they kept moving while they were, uh, offloading liquid.

How bad of a problem is this? Well, the Associated Press reported, “A litter crew for the Oregon Department of Transportation picked up an estimated 200-300 urine filled plastic bottles along (I-84), about half of which were found in a short stretch dubbed “Three Mile Hill.”

Maybe it should be renamed “three-ounce hill,” but I digress.

Truckers of America, let’s nip this problem in the bud! (Well, not literally, but you know what I mean.)

If you have to, ahem, do your business while on the run, please dispose of the bottle properly at your next stop. (Eventually, you will stop.)

Would you like to be the litter crew or highway mower picking up multiple bottles of a yellow, foamy liquid that isn’t Mountain Dew? I didn’t think so.

If you’ll do that, we’ll understand that this is one time that you can’t keep both hands on the wheel.