When Vic & I moved into our new house almost 3 years ago, one of the very first items we bought for it was 2 new garbage cans. They were lovely, green and plastic, with locking green lids and black plastic handles & wheels to make the weekly haul to the curb oh-so convenient. It didn't take long to "muck" them up, though. First our ever-helpful neighbor did us a "favor" by spraypainting our house numbers unevenly all over the cans in bright shiny silver. Then the inside of the cans themselves just got icky over time from assorted trash yuck. But through it all, we had our locking lids. Actually we were the only house on the street that still had the lids for their garbage cans. Vickie was quite proud of this and very adament that we continue to use the garbage-keeper-inners. That all changed last week.
Last Wednesday morning it was very windy and since it's some sort of garbageman sin to actually replace the lid on a garbage can, the cast-aside lids disappeared to places unknown. Well, actually only one disappeared to places unknown. I ran over the other one, squashing it like a big lid bug. The wind blew it across the driveway as I was backing out to go to work. Since I was running late, I didn't stop to pick the dead lid carcass up. I hoped that the gusts would carry it away and I could just blame it all on the garbagemen. So of course that stupid squashed lid sat in our yard all day just waiting for Vickie to come home and tattle on me! I shoulda just took the damn thing to work with me and tossed it in the dumpster.
It's still sitting in our garage. I don't dare through it out.
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This reminds me of the time we had a blizzard in Langdon, ND. I had seen our garbage can lid fly by and had a good idea where it went. After the storm was over I retrieved it from a snow drift. The next day our neighbor HAD STOLEN OUR LID TO REPLACE HIS LID TAKEN BY THE STORM, AND HE CHAINED THE LID TO THE CAN!!!
Julie
Isn't it funny how we can get so pissy about trash can lids? We are the only ones in this area with lids as well, and there are lots of stray dogs and cats just waiting for an unattended trash bag. Since the garbage men pick up the trash right in front of out house, who do you think is the one who picks up the strewn garbage to keep it from taking over the yard? Grrr.....
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