I am not rich and do not live in an affluent suburb by any means but it's not a slum either. I have been here for a long time and have never seen a problem with crime, vandalism, or run down houses (at least not any more than any other similar places). What I am saying is, I don't think that any of my neighbors that drive up or down our street or through the neighborhood are so poor that they need to beg for things or pick up trash.
BUT PICK UP TRASh some of them do!!
Many times I have been amazed at how fast someone will pick up and haul away things that are put out with the trash!! Not just at my house but things I see in front of other houses on trash days also. Personally, I figure that if someone is putting something out to be picked up by the garbage man, it is either broken, dirty, or worthless and maybe all three!! I wouldn't want it!!
About ten or twelve years ago, I bought a nice hose reel to wind up and store my garden hose on. Last year it developed leaks in a couple of places but it wasn't bad, so I kept using it. Last week when I took it out of the garage and hooked it up to the outside faucet, it was really leaking bad in at least three places. At first I thought it may be the hose, so I took it off to put a good hose on it and that is when I found that the threaded part that you fasten the hose to was cracked. I bought a new hose reel!!
Tomorrw is trash pick-up day so after lunch, I put our trash can up by the street and sat the broken hose reel next to it. About 30 minutes later, I took the kitchen trash out and THE HOSE REEL WAS ALREADY GONE!!
This has happened to me several times, with other broken things I have put out for the trash man, (and as I said, I have seen it at other houses) so it is nothing new just because of the bad economic times. I guess some people are better at fixing up broken things than I am but I still think that if it is put out with the trash it is not worth taking home. Even if one person's trash is anothers treasure, I still don't want it.
Grumpy
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