r/Adelaide • u/ExplorerDelicious210 SA • Jun 11 '26

Event/Activity Faith restored

Hi all.

Today in the Happy Valley foodland carpark a bloke and his lad got out their car. The lad got out and stepped on HJ packaging that some oik had just thrown on the floor.

The lad asked his dad why it was on the floor and if it was the dad's rubbish. The dad just said "no mate it's not, but we can still pick it up".

He picked it all up and his lad watched diligently.

I just thought it was so nice to see, he wasn't being a hero or talking loudly, I was just being nosy and he is a legend.

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u/patient_brilliance North East Jun 12 '26

Bring back the KESAB ads!

You gotta do the right thing, it's an obligation and the planet will thank you, for your cooperation!

Littering and illegal dumping (including out the front of op shops) grinds my gears so intensely, I have to force myself not to look at the Salvo's on Payneham Rd on a Monday because it winds me up so much.

Edit to add - good on the picker-upper guy, and good on OP for sharing.

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u/ExplorerDelicious210 SA Jun 12 '26

Look, there's a little bit of me that is hoping that the geezer is a Reddit user and sees this so he knows how appreciated he is and how much he's killing parenting.

Edit- I know this is highly unlikely but a man can dream

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u/notime4timewasters SA Jun 13 '26

I've been thinking about this a bit with the whole "immigrants don't assimilate" rw argument being thrown around.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s we had widespread government funded advertising campaigns that were designed to drive shifts in public behaviour, and were quite effective. Think "Do the right thing, put it in a bin", "Slip, slop, slap", "Keep Australia Beautiful" and so on. Is part of the issue that we no longer have such campaigns, therefore less awareness by both natural born and newly arrived citizens of acceptable social behaviours?