It's a very windy trash day
How windy is it?
Well, I've got a trellis in the back yard that I grow grapes on. It's staked into the ground with very long tent stakes... or at least it WAS! It blew over.
That's how windy it is today.
It's also trash pickup day in my neighborhood of Olathe. Bad combination of events, imo.
It's not necessarily bad for me directly, but it is by way of my neighbors... "The Mexicans".
See, my idea of disposing of my refuse is to take one of the many trash bags the city of Olathe gives to residents (for free) and put my garbage in there. Then I seal it up by tying it off. Then I take the almost hermetically sealed bag outside and place it gently (or with force if need be) into one of three Rubbermaid trash barrels that I have. Then I put a fitted lid on the barrel. That garbage isn't going anywhere, and animals can't get at it. On trash day, I drag the barrels out to the street and sometime during the afternoon a truck comes by and removes the carefully bagged refuse. When I arrive home from work, I drag the barrels back up to my house and the weekly dance begins again.
"The Mexicans" idea of disposing of trash is to leave 4 barrels out at the street... 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. If there ever were lids for those barrels, they are long gone. Most of the trash that actually makes it inside of those barrels is just plain lucky... "The Mexicans" normally toss assorted fast food refuse in them as they exit their cars... from about 10 feet away (at least). When they do actually bring trash out of the house, it is in bags (sometimes it's even in those nice Olathe bags!) but the bags are usually not tied closed. Of course with all the fast food junk, those barrels fill up quickly so the bags are usually relegated to being tossed on the lawn next to the barrels. Can anyone say wildlife buffet?
Well, to speed up the story a bit... my front lawn is covered with windblown trash from "The Mexicans" wildlife buffet.
I've reported these morons to the city countless times... but each time the city comes out and talks to them, then "The Mexicans" keep the yard clean just long enough so that the next time I complain the city treats it just like a first offense.
Oh well... tomorrow if the winds die down enough, I'll be picking up trash and tossing it into "The Mexicans" yard.
Well, I've got a trellis in the back yard that I grow grapes on. It's staked into the ground with very long tent stakes... or at least it WAS! It blew over.
That's how windy it is today.
It's also trash pickup day in my neighborhood of Olathe. Bad combination of events, imo.
It's not necessarily bad for me directly, but it is by way of my neighbors... "The Mexicans".
See, my idea of disposing of my refuse is to take one of the many trash bags the city of Olathe gives to residents (for free) and put my garbage in there. Then I seal it up by tying it off. Then I take the almost hermetically sealed bag outside and place it gently (or with force if need be) into one of three Rubbermaid trash barrels that I have. Then I put a fitted lid on the barrel. That garbage isn't going anywhere, and animals can't get at it. On trash day, I drag the barrels out to the street and sometime during the afternoon a truck comes by and removes the carefully bagged refuse. When I arrive home from work, I drag the barrels back up to my house and the weekly dance begins again.
"The Mexicans" idea of disposing of trash is to leave 4 barrels out at the street... 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. If there ever were lids for those barrels, they are long gone. Most of the trash that actually makes it inside of those barrels is just plain lucky... "The Mexicans" normally toss assorted fast food refuse in them as they exit their cars... from about 10 feet away (at least). When they do actually bring trash out of the house, it is in bags (sometimes it's even in those nice Olathe bags!) but the bags are usually not tied closed. Of course with all the fast food junk, those barrels fill up quickly so the bags are usually relegated to being tossed on the lawn next to the barrels. Can anyone say wildlife buffet?
Well, to speed up the story a bit... my front lawn is covered with windblown trash from "The Mexicans" wildlife buffet.
I've reported these morons to the city countless times... but each time the city comes out and talks to them, then "The Mexicans" keep the yard clean just long enough so that the next time I complain the city treats it just like a first offense.
Oh well... tomorrow if the winds die down enough, I'll be picking up trash and tossing it into "The Mexicans" yard.
posted by P. McB. at 10:29 PM
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