Oh pshaw, on Fri 21 Dec 2007 05:40:22p, Goomba38 meant to say...

> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> Haha, that's funny. We keep our garbage cans out of sight, too. They
>> aren't exactly decorative. I didn't put a sign on your garbage cans,
>> though. If I was going to do that, I'd put a sign on the cans across the
>> street. Bring in your friggin garbage cans once they're empty! So
>> annoying, they leave them out for days sometimes.
>>
> Ooooh.. that drives me nuts but just as much as that is that in my
> county, we have a choice of garbage pick up companies (3 or 4) and they
> all use different days for pick ups. So it sometimes seems as if there
> are cans somewhere on the street almost 3 days a week. Very annoying
> when you think of it. I wish they'd organize it so that the entire
> neighborhood used the same day (days) only.

That's the way it is in our neighborhood. There are at least 3 different
companies and they each pick up twice a week. Seems like there's hardly a
day of the week (except Sunday) that there aren't trash barrels at the curb
somewhere.

> I recall one house when I was growing up the garbage men came way up to
> the house from the street and grabbed the cans, hauled them down to the
> street and then returned them to the house where they sat on the side of
> the garage. The homeowners didn't have to do anything ever but dump
> their trash in. We have to roll our huge cans up to the curb nowadays.
> We were so spoiled then and had no idea!
>

Yes, those were the days, and I remember them well. Where we lived the
garages were at the back of the lot, and the pickup crews went all the way
back there to get the garbage cans.

Another thing we don't see in too many areas these days is home delivery of
dairy products, bread, chips and pretzels, etc.

--
Wayne Boatwright

Date: Thursday, December 20th,2007

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