Today is Garner’s “unprepared trash pickup” day. All the neighborhood junk lines the road today, ready for pickup by the trash company.
Only, most of it will be gone by the time the trashmen get here. Since we’ve moved here, Kelly and I have been so entertained at how our neighbors will cruise the streets, hauling away some treasure they found in someone else’s junkpile. Kelly watched this morning as a well-dressed lady hopped out of a minivan and janked two decrepit sawhorses out of our neighbors’ junkpile. Our neighbors’ bicycle didn’t last long, having been swiped by sunrise.
Last year we figured it out. The town announces “unprepared trash day” and then deliberately waits another week to dispatch the trucks. By that time, there is usually little left to pick up.
This, folks, is recycling at its best. Who needs landfills when you’ve got “unprepared trash day?”