Suggestion PEOPLE REFORM

I was going to reply to the LAND REFORM thread but I did not want people going off on me for being off topic so I started this one:

People reform is what is needed. People here will cross the street to pee on their neighbor's fence or throw trash across the street so its in front of their neighbors house, but the neighbor will do the same thing right back and both will think "that's the other guy's mess, I'm not cleaning it up"

I called out one of my neighbors for this early on. I found fresh pee on my gate back when the subdivision was new so the only other people on my street lived across from me. So I walked across the street and loudly, to my gf while standing under the neighbor's open window, "I wonder who is peeing on my gate when the only ones here are you and me and these neighbors? Is it the polite thing to do in Philippine culture to pee on your neighbor's fence?"

I haven't caught anyone peeing on it since then.

 

It really is the Best way, name and shame works wonders whichever way you interpret it

 

So why do you think the neighbor was doing that?

 

Guilty admission coming: They do it because it is the way they have always done it. There have been times when I used to sit at a sari sari store with beer drinking tables in front and I got a little drunk. I needed to pee. I watched what the others do. They got up, walked across the street and pissed on the neighbor's wall. So when I needed to pee I did what everyone else was doing.

So until people who set examples change (and I mean respected filipino society leaders) then the people themselves ain't gonna change. What was needed, at a MINIMUM, was an enforced law that the guy who was selling beer have a fence on his OWN yard that is designated "pee here, on MY property". But good luck with that.

 

Another silly question. How about a restroom on his property? Nothing fancy, more along the line of a porta-john, maybe a hole in the ground with a seat on top of it.

 

Whilst very funny, it would alter his premises Status. Prices up and back to square one. I just asked my Local sori owner and he tells me that he is not even supposed to have any tables outside ( he doesn't but will give you a stool to sit on if you ask nicely) as people are not supposed to drink on his premises. He would need a Licence NAH! I think the wall opposite stands where it is for a Reason

 

Well there you have it, the guy across the street built it for his neighbor. Now the 64 million dollar question, does the neighbor need to get a license.

How about using an open sewer or a designated tree. Better yet, plant the tree in sewer channel and build a wall around it.

 

And that really is a silly question.