Well, on my way in to work this morning, I was faced with a dilemma. I park about a quarter mile from where my office. There are several colleges in a 5 mile radius of my job. This past weekend must have been move-out day for the semester or something because the streets were just lined with furniture, tables, and just everything else you can think of.

Anyway, as I was walking to work, I came across a butt load of curly maple and oak on the curb, just waiting for the garbage men. I was like, 'holy four-letters'. I stopped for a moment and just stared at the pile. I considered walking back to my vehicle to pull up to the garbage pile to take my find. But then, how would I look in my dress clothes (not suit and tie dressy, but slacks and collar), going through someone's garbage and loading crap into my vehicle?

So, I paused for a moment, then continued my walk to work. I thought about that pile a few times throughout the day. After work, I walked back to my vehicle. All the garbage cans were empty and all the piles were gone, including the maple and oak...surely crushed up in the back of some garbage truck out there somewhere.

Would you have taken the garbage?

My shop is in a row of warehouses, mostly occupied by artists, three times now we've found a really nice steel exterior door with etched glass panel dumped next to the dumpsters, these things retail for several hundred dollars and someone keeps throwing them away (bless their little cotton socks).

Needless to say I feel no shame in trundling my dolly down there to pick them up. (just wish these arty types would discover Festools and start throwing them out too).

on a similar note

the british govenment has had a new idea

"lets have a new fine AND spin it as green   "

rubbish (garbage) collection is already paid for as part of the council tax (a local tax based on property value, not income)


just to HELP things

many local authorities are now saving money by doing a bi weekly collection, not weekly

who says the govenrnment shouldnt get a "fine" christmas bonus 



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2493788/The-110-fine-for-overfilling-your-bin.html


dd

DD,

Will the G Gs (Garbage Goons) over there cause a massive
migration to the US of Brits seeking freedom of rubbish?
Refuge from Refuse.

LB 

Sounds like the consensus is that I should have gone back and hauled the loot away. I'll have to remember that, the next time I am faced with a 'dirty job'. 


Great...now I have a new image burned into my brain: a naked dude walking through the streets with an arm load of curly maple. 

Surely the locals here would look at a scene like that and say,...'those damned fraternities, what in the he!! will they come up with next'   

A sorority?? Now, that's something altogether different....I'll take that image. 

DD
Tell them to come on over, we throw our garbage
all over the place
LB

Oh and another thing comes to mind with the garbage, with everyone so concerned about identity theft and stuff these days, I wonder if there would be some issue with the authorities for picking out the garbage of choice.

It would'a been cool though to show before and after pics of some great project.
Before shot: garbage pile
After shot: a table top with a diamond shine like that of Per's the Swenson's bar tops.

...if only...

"With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good" 


After three "I'm not worthy" bows to Bob, the diamond tops mentioned above are now attributed to the Swensons, not just Per.