My Garbage Man
My garbage man… what’s his deal?
More often than not, he doesn’t manage to empty the garbage from the can into the truck, but leaves a few bits and pieces for me to collect when I get home.
A few weeks ago he spilled broken glass all over the pavement (where children play). No big deal; I cleaned it up.
But could you please ask him this week what in the **** he did with my garbage can lid?!?!?
The empty can was (strangely) in the middle of my yard… right next to the Vote No sign. Usually the can is in the street with the lid sitting next to it.
Today, no lid anywhere in sight.
No wind to speak of today, either, to have blown it away.
Was this a political statement on his part? Perhaps you could just direct him to leave a note next time.
Regardless, I would like to get my garbage can lid back.
Update:
Just got a voice mail from the City of Madison. They’re apparently going to talk to the dude on my route and bring me a new garbage can.
That’s great, except I shudder to think what he’s going to do to me NEXT week.
Update 2:
It gets worse. Turns out the lid was inside the can. The garbage man did nothing wrong; in fact, he’d been nice enough to make sure that the lid wouldn’t get blown away or anything. I swear I looked in the damn thing.
So, the city is going to come take the can back. Man, I feel bad about that.
Now, the dude certainly has a tendency to leave garbage spilled all over; that much is true. But damn, not this week.
So again I wonder what’s going to happen next garbage day.