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Chairs Not Pushed in and Dirty Tabletops
When I enter the college dining hall, I always take time searching for a clean table where I can eat my meal. There are regularly condiment stains and crumbs on the tables which gets me thinking about how these students don’t think about how someone has to wipe these tables down. After inspecting the tables, I look at the seats and some of them have bits of breakfast or lunch.
I feel very sad when I see chairs not pushed in and dirty tabletops. I wonder, too, how these students don’t even consider that other diners would like to have their meals at the tables that they are using.
I am deeply saddened that these young adults don’t take the time to clean up after themselves because they likely think that they are entitled to dining hall workers slaving away for them. Or they may think that every minute is a precious minute that they should allot to studying or getting to their class or extracurricular activity early or for their homework assignments.
It regularly baffles me that many university students don’t empathize with what dining hall workers go through. I am often in a bad mood thinking that many college students don’t think that dining hall employees don’t deserve to have their days made even slightly easier. I look around the dining hall and I think about how a lot of university students think that their hopes and…