To feel so worked up over non-event

[Celoo]

I live in a coastal town and took a walk around the sea front today. As I walked past a coach stop, I spotted one of the coach drivers pull out rubbish from his pocket and chuck it straight on the floor. He actually did it twice. Him and his colleague were stood on a pavement above a slipway so that rubbish will probably be floating around the sea now.
And what's worse is that there was a big bin a few meters away from him!
I was so annoyed and wanted to pull him up on it so much but I just stood there behind him for a minute and froze, I just couldn't do it. I walked off and made a note of the coach to contact the company but for the next 20 minutes I had this awful anxiety. My heart was racing and I felt shaky, as if I'd actually had a confrontation but I hadn't said a word!
I'm so annoyed at myself for not being "brave" enough to highlight to lazy pig that he shouldn't throw litter on the floor and I feel stupid for the reaction I had over something never even happened.

Is this a normal reaction? Does everyone else find it easy to say "oi you lazy oik, pick up your crap"?

I'd have annoyed at seeing him do that but I wouldn't have said anything. People are very unpredictable and I have no desire to get into a confrontation. Your heart pounding shaky reaction seems very extreme though.

I'd have been very annoyed too but I'm not sure that my heart would be racing and be feeling shaky.

"oi you lazy oik, pick up your crap"?

Perhaps that's why you feel unable to say anything in these situations.

Excuse me, there's a bin literally just over there would be far less confrontational, factual and straight to the point.

Neither would be likely to make him see the error of his ways and pick it up, but you would've felt less annoyed with yourself that you said nothing.

I say things. The more you say things then the easier it gets. The reason why I do is that if it annoys me that energy is best directed into doing something to being about change, not in just getting annoyed but doing nothing.
Next time (sadly there will be a next time!) big breath, then calmly point out that what they did wasn’t right.

Your reaction does sound a bit extreme but to be honest, I think most women (I'm assuming you're a woman) would be reluctant to challenge 2 men. You never know how they will react and it's best to err on the side of safety.

I think your plan of contacting the coach company is the best one. Did you get the reg of the coach he was driving?

Just one thing that I found a little confusing in your post - I initially thought you meant he was throwing the rubbish on the floor of the bus. It was only when I was trying to figure out how the rubbish would end up in the sea that I realised what you meant.

I know in some places people use floor to mean the ground outdoors but if you are complaining to the coach company, maybe use ground instead of floor as the person reading the email may just dismiss it with reading it properly if they assume it was the floor of the bus.

I hope I didn't offend you and I would never normally comment on spelling/grammar etc. I know it's a regionalism but just thought it might be helpful to know that not everyone would be familiar with that usage.

Pointing out the bin as you walk past isn't 'challenging', it's communicating.

So they might use a few choice swearwords but so what? Just carry on walking, knowing you've said your bit.

“Excuse me, I think you’ve dropped something.”
Might work?

Absolutely say something, what a tosser