Pickles by Brian Crane for September 11, 2022

Thank you for cleaning up the street Earl

And who cares what the garbage man thinks about the bottles

My first landlady finally had enough nerve to comment on all of the empty liquor boxes she found in the trash can. She was anti-alcohol. I had to explain that I don’t drink Bourbon, the cases make great packing boxes for crystal glasses. Easies way to pack glasses, No wrapping, just drop into the partitions.

If you don’t throw them away, Pearl will think that you are a couple of drunks. You can always double bag the beer cans so the garbage man doesn’t see them.

Our garbage man never gets out of the truck or opens a can. An arm reaches out and grabs it and dumps it in the top.

and why would the garbage collector look into your trash?

the garbage man left an AA pamphlet on my garbage can. Judgmental SOB; mind your own business!

Either return for the deposit or place in the recycle bin. In my city, they then take the empties in for the deposit refund.

Put them in the recycle bin.

You mean you’re not

Keeping up appearances. He appears to drink like a fish.

I live in a rural area. About half of the items I pick up are beer cans or liquor bottles. Drink while driving much?

The garbage man knows,The mailman knows,The street view knowsFB knows.

Trash man gonna report you to the Bishop

Like when I take 6 months worth of returnables back.

2 or 3 people come by on garbage night and clean out the returnables.

Municipal sanitation truck drivers don’t care what you throw away as long as it is small enough to fit in back, are not forbidden toxic chemicals, or human or animal body parts. Such forbidden items are a hassle. Workers just want to get through their routes and go home.

The delusion, that some have, that the trashman is examining, as he picks up. Nope.

I usually pick up a piece of litter when I pass by, then throw it in the first trash can I come across. People think I’m weird for doing it. I think everyone else is weird for not doing it.

And I, of course, am correct. As usual. So there, Mom! :p

Recycle

Our garbage collectors don’t need to even get out of the truck anymore.

Some people will never believe you ……

This is what kills me. We have a 10 cent deposit on bottles and aluminum cans -with a catch. The deposit only applies to cans with soda in them. If it has lemonade or tea, there ‘s no deposit, even though it’s THE EXACT SAME CAN!

Our garbage collectors just dump the bags into their truck. Try don’t have the time to go looking thru trash bags.

How about re-cycling those empty whatevers?

I discard my deposit cans & bottles.

Let the floggings begin.

I don’t care what the trash man thinks! Not is business to think!

So, what IS new?

So what…let them think?

Could be worse….in some neighborhoods he’d be bringing back used condoms and syringes.

Probably best if she doesn’t find out that yesterday, he found discarded carton from a Swedish genital-organ-that-GoComics-denies-exists enlarger and put that in the garbage, along with a case carton of Vagisil.

My brother collects cans and bottles which we take to be recycling. He is on an extremely small retirement income and it gives him a little extra spending money. It has nothing to do with his consumption of alcohol. And it helps gets the litter off the street. I am long past being embarrassed by what other people think.

The region has glass recycling bins in shopping centers. Homes don’t have enough glass for recycling. They are full of beer, wine, and spirits bottles. They are near bars and restaurants and cut back on their trash collection costs.

Years ago, my boyfriend and I found a huge stash of beer bottles, etc on the hill behind his house. We cleaned it up, put the bottles in the trash. On trash pickup day, I saw them looking at the bottles, then looking up at the house, obviously speculating on the party he’d had!

I do the same thing in our neighborhood but it can be frustrating as it seems the more I do it the worse the litter gets. But, in addition to walking, it is a bend up and down exercise and keeps where I live clean. I just wish that people would see that properly disposing of litter is one of the easiest things to do.

Every time I take our recycling out and dump it in the bin, I think the whole neighborhood can hear the glass falling.

You just never know what’s going to happen to your neighborhood.

Someone in my neighborhood regularly walks and picks up litter. He said it helps make up for some of the wrong things he did as a kid.

My neighbors leave their garbage cans outside, toss their trash into the cans, but never put on a lid. This sort of thing explains some of the trash all over the country. It’s a big family and they have a lot of open cans. On occasion, I have picked up a few larger pieces off my yard and returned them.

As a non-drinker, I also regret/resent the number of beer cans that end up in my litter control recycling.

Earl is a man after my own heart. Do the same every day on my walk as well. Never have so few done so much for so many…..it is just the right thing to do.

As a former mail carrier who had a fourteen mile walking route (ever 500 houses), I was carrying mail one day when a trash collector making his rounds with his crew said to me, “I’ll change jobs with you.” My answer was, “No thank you. Y’all are the only people I know that work harder than I do.” And I still believe that.

You sillies, they don’t go in the garbage can – they go in the recycling!

Shame on you if you don’t recycle. It’s 2022!

Put a note on the bag if you are that concerned.

The issue isn’t the judgement, it’s that your garbage man is rooting through your trash.

As long as the cans and bottles belong to expensive brands, that can only raise your profile in the neighbourhood.

All that sounds like recycling. I hope you have one of the blue containers!

More likely it’d be a bag of empty plastic water bottles, (oh how I wish they had deposits on them), cause alcohol ones do…

Our garbage man will think we don’t recycle!

I’ve done that. Walking home from work, see something on my way that can go in my recycling bin instead of the street. I figure, somebody should and, hey, I’m somebody.

I’ve done this on my walk every Tuesday for over five years now. Tuesday is Trash Day, so the garbage cans are all lined up on the street. Wearing gloves, I just pick up the litter and carry it to the next trash/recycling can a few feet away- no need to carry a bag, or fill up anyone’s cans, including mine, with the entire lot.

Maybe she’s more worried their fellow Latter-day Saints will see those empties.

I pick up empty beer cans off my front lawn quite often. The only thing I’m concerned about is that people might think I drink “light” beer.

good god opal they`re in a bag! do you think they trashman is supermans secret identity?

Never put them in the garbage—they are all recyclable. Now you look in our recycling bin, you will find wine bottles and TONS of Kombucha bottles.