Sluuuck suuuuck suuuuck....

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yeah. That's me. I sucked the chrome off a trailer hitch this afternoon. From my work phone. So not only did I suck, but I was unprofessional as well.

And I don't care.

Conversation with Southland Sanitation today.

Me: Hi, it's RK again. I'd like to know why my recycling is still sitting on my front lawn in the exact same place it was over a month and a half ago when I started calling you weekly.

SS: You mean it's still not picked up?

Me: I'm just a little curious at this point. Last couple times I called you, you assured me pickup was on Thursday.

SS: That's right.

Me: Well, I called Monday, and a different woman assured me it was on Tuesday. Which has come and gone. As has Thursday. Now, garbage pickup is on Thursday...

SS: That's right, and your recycling should be on the same day as your garbage pickup.

Me: ...except it's never Thursday, it's usually Saturday, but that's okay, as long as it gets picked up....

SS: Uh...lemme check on that.

Me: I'll be happy to hold.

Time Passes.

SS: Your garbage pickup is Friday.

Me: Are you sure? Cuz that's the third day you all have given me so far.

SS: That's why your recycling hasn't been picked up, you've been putting it out on the wrong day. THAT'S the problem.

Me: (feeling the primal urge to kill her, break open her bones, and suck out the marrow beginning to form. ) No, that isnt' the problem, madam, that bin has been sitting on my lawn SINCE THE INITIAL CONVERSATION I HAD WITH YOU.

SS: (trying to interupt) Uh..

Me: LISTEN. The grass underneath the bin IS DEAD. I let that happen on purpose to illustrate a point.

SS: Ms....

Me: Dead. Brown. Crispy. We have been tossing the rest of the recycling in the trash. The bin has not been from this spot in over a MONTH. Has your truck been down my street on any of the days this bin has been killing my lawn up front for the past MONTH AND A HALF? Believe you me, madam, I assure you the problem is not negligence or confusion on my part.At this point, the presence of your recycling bin on my lawn is nothing more than some sort of mildly entertaining experiment in just how bad your company's garbage service is.

SS: Um....okay. We're having a talk with the manager for that today. I'm sorry.

Me: Yes, well, great. I remember you saying that the last four times we spoke.

SS: I'll give you call back later.

Guess what? Predictably, she didn't call back. But to my VAST suprise, both the trash and the recycling bin were emptied this afternoon.

I'm calling Jergenson's Sanitation next week. I really don't want to have to string my fucking guts out every time I want trash pickup. It's easier for me just to go to the dump myself.

[Becks]

I await how things go.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I remember when we first got recycling pick up...the township issued buckets and we had to sort everything (one bucket for cans, one for plastic, one for each color glass). It was illegal to use said buckets for any other purpose. Thankfully they have since changed the rules and we can just use a regular garbage can and throw everything in it.

At least they're organized...trash in my neighborhood is Monday and Thursday and recycling is picked up every other Monday. We put the trash on one side of the driveway and the recycling can on the other.

I think we still have a couple of those buckets in the garage holding other crap...I guess they won't come and arrest us for it...

[Boozy]

Damn, RK. You get RESULTS.

Can I give you a list of companies I'm having grievances with?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Ah-wuh? They haven't picked up your recycling in a month?

That stuff's gotta be getting mighty funky. I remember my biology class's trip to the recycling center. That place smelled.

[BlaqueKatt]

our town has these big plastic roller bins/cans for both recycling and now regular trash-we've thankfully never had an issue with pick up, it's just getting anyone of the three other families in the building to take it to the curb.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Damn, RK. You get RESULTS.

Can I give you a list of companies I'm having grievances with?

Weeelll, I dunno about THAT. Yeah, they came to pick it up, but it took over a month of me kvetching to get them to do it. I'm not sure that rates as "results".

As for stink, no, not really. We wash out anything that might get gross, because of the fire ant problem. Mostly what's in there is diet soda cans, a few rinsed out beer cans, and aquafina bottles. Well rinsed and sun tanned from being out on my lawn so long, so there would be no yummy goodness at all left even if we put some in. I was more concerned about the rainwater getting trapped in some of the stuff and attracting mosquitoes.

[myswtghst]

Yeesh. I'm annoyed as of late, because my apartment complex does not have recycling, at all. We have dumpsters for our trash that are emptied once a week, but I have to bring all my recycling to my parents for them to put out, as it's the easiest solution I've come up with so far. Which explains why I have a backseat full of empty pop bottles.

[blas]

Both apartments I have lived in have made recycling mandatory. The lease even threatens eviction if you are found not to be recycling (I have no clue how they'd find out.....stake out outside your apartment and wait for you to take out the trash, hoping it was see-through, or maybe break into your apartment when you aren't home and snoop around in your garbage looking for cans?)...

Yeah...uh...where was I? Sorry about the rant there.....

Anyways, yes, so there are two dumpsters at my new apartment complex. Well, there are 5 complexes all together. The bigger of the two dumpsters is for recycling. I don't exactly know which day is garbage/recycle day, I just somehow always manage to throw my shit away before either dumpster gets too full. I must be asleep when the garbage men come.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Where I'm at, the recycling pickup is handled by the city Department of Sanitation and is on the same day as the regular trash pickup (one advantage of living in the city.) Our day for pickup in our neighborhood is Thursday.

Now, if I were outside the city limit, I'd have to pay for trash pickup.

I guess it varies from area to area

[Knifeman]

Yeesh. I'm annoyed as of late, because my apartment complex does not have recycling, at all.

We're all doomed when the sun goes out anyways. All you're doing is making us use inferior products in our final days.