BJJ-Blue
09-01-2011, 04:35 PM
So bulk trash pick-up day is coming in my neighborhood. We put out a few things yesterday, even though pick-up isnt for a few days. Most of our neighbors are doing the same. We put out a few broken plastic containers, a Craftsman lawn bag that hooks to a mower, and a gas grill the previous tenants left. Let me tell you about the grill. It was nasty. Just nasty. God knows how long it had sat on the back porch. The gas controls and the ignition button were rusted almost solid (so I'm sure it didn't work), it was beaten up badly, and the grill surface was horrible. It had a rock-hard black material on it that was not coming off. I'd eat off my toilet seat before I ate of this.
So I come home today and the grill and lawn bag are gone, but the broken containers are still there. I ask my wife and her friend who is over if the City takes like the metal one day and the rest later or something. Her friend laughs and says, 'It got taken by "Jawas". They do this. They know when bulk pick up day is in neighborhoods and they sweep the streets a few days before pick up. You didn't notice your neighbors piles are smaller too? They're the same people who wake you up at the crack of dawn when you're having a garge sale so they get first shot at your junk. You didn't know this?' Sure enough, I go back out and the other neighbors piles are all smaller too!
Well I didn't know that. So am I being naive, or is this also news to you guys?
So I come home today and the grill and lawn bag are gone, but the broken containers are still there. I ask my wife and her friend who is over if the City takes like the metal one day and the rest later or something. Her friend laughs and says, 'It got taken by "Jawas". They do this. They know when bulk pick up day is in neighborhoods and they sweep the streets a few days before pick up. You didn't notice your neighbors piles are smaller too? They're the same people who wake you up at the crack of dawn when you're having a garge sale so they get first shot at your junk. You didn't know this?' Sure enough, I go back out and the other neighbors piles are all smaller too!
Well I didn't know that. So am I being naive, or is this also news to you guys?