Chet, I'm not mad. I'm thinking. Which is good, I think. I didn't bother that much about cigarette butts until I had babies small enough and curious enough to pick them up and try and eat them. Suddenly I noticed them all over the place. I don't think all smokers are evil planet polluting demons, but I do think most that I have seen don't think twice about throwing butts on the ground. Such absent-minded dumping, when you are super sensitive to everything that a baby can get into, is intensely irritating. We all have our personal areas of persnicketyness. Some smokers are probably appalled at the way I chew my nails. However mixed in with my fantasies of chucking wilted lettuce leaves and egg-shells on the lawns of smokers were attempts to design vandal-proof ashtrays. Maybe I'll just label some old tuna tins and leave them on the picnic tables, but then I might be accused of littering.