Pickles by Brian Crane for December 14, 2017

cross your fingers, Earl, that this one neighbor as well as the other neighbors don’t see you doing your dirty deed

Earl, I guess you haven’t realized that everyone have home security cameras now?

I can’timagine those two having so much garbage that it fills up their trash bin. We have 4 in our house and ours is about 1/2 full ( about 3 bags) .

At least TIE the damn things WILL YA..????

One of the joys of living where I do, is that we have daily garbage pickup in the mornings and again, late at night.

The neighborhood dogs still manage to get into the trash bags though.

Twice I’ve had this. Once when we lived in a condo right next to a neighborhood of upscale houses. One night my husband saw a guy throwing his trash over the fence from his house to the condo dumpster. Assuming that our neighbor merely slipped as he was taking out his trash, my husband (who was on the condo board at the time) retrieved the bags and returned them to the neighbor. My husband must have been right because the man was very embarrassed (he also said he was feuding with the garbage pick-up company and hadn’t paid his bill. Geez!) Then, years later we were in our house, a raised ranch. The room we use for an office has a good view of the street, driveway, front yard, etc. I often sit here with the only light coming from the computer as I’m waiting for a bad stomach to settle. When, one garbage night, what to my wondering eyes should appear but a car pulling up to the curb? Out hops, not ol’ St. Nick, but a scrawny old guy who pops his trunk and hauls out his garbage bags to our curb! I yelled out the window to him, scared the old guy half out of his wits. He grabbed his bags and beat it. For good.

I don’t really get this. If their trash was picked up Wednesday, wouldn’t their can/bin/dumpster be empty on Thursday?

Friday is when the bin men collect from here.

xxx

That is fun for electronic equipment and old fire crackers, but I only do it at 11 PM moonless nights.