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I always keep my chewing gum wrappers. Call me anal if you want, but I don’t like throwing my gum away knowing that it’ll get stuck on something and create a big mess, even if it doesn’t involve me.

The problem comes with chewing gum that isn’t individually packaged, for instance the Dentyne Ice products, which instead have a tray with each piece of gum in its own little bubble which you then pop out.

A few minutes into King Kong I realized this problem I had of discarding my gum. Three long hours ahead of me, and I didn’t have any scraps of paper to spit my gum into.

At this point I thought of resorting to using a one dollar bill. But wait! I still had Chinese Yuan in my wallet! The smallest denomination was $5 though…what is that in US?…divide by 8…no no. I wasn’t gonna use money to discard my gum. Next thing I know I’d be using bills to wipe my ass.

I don’t remember what I eventually found to spit my gum into, but the idea of wasting money like that has made me wonder whether I spend too much money, or just don’t care about money. The capitalism is seeping in.