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I go to a church about 10 blocks away from me. In the parking lot is a paper recycling bin, and next to it is an industrial size garbage container.
Since I drive by that church a lot, I will stop and recycle my paper there.
I see a lot of people dump stuff made of plastic, cloths, kitchen items not made of plastic, etc. Sometimes I pull these garbage items out of the paper recycle bin. One time I found an Easter basket (it was more stuffed toy than basket) and a purse. I would have taken them to the garbage bin but I was afraid someone would accuse me of dumping my garbage in the Church’s garbage bin. Guess what happened? A guy from the church (there are always people cleaning up or who work in the parish office that are around between 8-5 on weekdays) comes towards me while I was getting in my truck and was motioning toward that stuff, saying I can’t leave that there and I say, “that is garbage, not paper.”
Now a lot of times I dump paper (mostly weekly circulars) so I see people dumping garbage into the garbage bins. One time I saw a broken flatscreen tv, bunch of tennis shoes and a metal planter. The planter looked nice so I took it. In fact, sometimes I would find a nice magazine, and I take it with me to read.
Yesterday I park my car parallel to the recycle bin and try to dump paper in one end but it was full, so I go to the other end and put the paper there. I get in the car and notice a guy in a white truck drive up to me. I figured he was going to dump paper too but he gets too close to me-in fact, his truck blocks my car. I wave at him, trying to get him to get out of the way. He doesn’t move, so I back up and trying to exit but he move his truck in the way of the exit. The exit is close to the bins, so I thought he was just backing up, like some moron did before. I go to the entrance and looking back I see this guy u-turns and heads back toward the parish office. Now I’m a bit freaked out. Why was he hedging me in? The only thing I could figure out was he was monitoring the bins to see who dumps garbage. But I just dumped paper. If he wanted to talk to me he could have pulled up parallel to me and waved at me, not block me.
I think about writing to the parish office.
Since I drive by that church a lot, I will stop and recycle my paper there.
I see a lot of people dump stuff made of plastic, cloths, kitchen items not made of plastic, etc. Sometimes I pull these garbage items out of the paper recycle bin. One time I found an Easter basket (it was more stuffed toy than basket) and a purse. I would have taken them to the garbage bin but I was afraid someone would accuse me of dumping my garbage in the Church’s garbage bin. Guess what happened? A guy from the church (there are always people cleaning up or who work in the parish office that are around between 8-5 on weekdays) comes towards me while I was getting in my truck and was motioning toward that stuff, saying I can’t leave that there and I say, “that is garbage, not paper.”
Now a lot of times I dump paper (mostly weekly circulars) so I see people dumping garbage into the garbage bins. One time I saw a broken flatscreen tv, bunch of tennis shoes and a metal planter. The planter looked nice so I took it. In fact, sometimes I would find a nice magazine, and I take it with me to read.
Yesterday I park my car parallel to the recycle bin and try to dump paper in one end but it was full, so I go to the other end and put the paper there. I get in the car and notice a guy in a white truck drive up to me. I figured he was going to dump paper too but he gets too close to me-in fact, his truck blocks my car. I wave at him, trying to get him to get out of the way. He doesn’t move, so I back up and trying to exit but he move his truck in the way of the exit. The exit is close to the bins, so I thought he was just backing up, like some moron did before. I go to the entrance and looking back I see this guy u-turns and heads back toward the parish office. Now I’m a bit freaked out. Why was he hedging me in? The only thing I could figure out was he was monitoring the bins to see who dumps garbage. But I just dumped paper. If he wanted to talk to me he could have pulled up parallel to me and waved at me, not block me.
I think about writing to the parish office.
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