Garbage Professionals...

What do I do with all this trash? (Check all that apply)

  • "Tuff" it out.

    Votes: 6 27.3%

  • Start piling the excess in the side yard, and throw a little away each week for the next few months.

    Votes: 1 4.5%

  • Sneak it into my neighbors trash cans.

    Votes: 9 40.9%

  • Take a trip to the dump

    Votes: 3 13.6%

  • Go dump it in a creek somewhere and let mother natue take care of it.

    Votes: 5 22.7%

  • Camm Option: Incinirate it in the "Icthus smoker".

    Votes: 11 50.0%
  • Total voters
    22
treebranch

treebranch

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Last night I stayed up to late farming gold, and forgot to put my trash out! i woke up as he was driving past my house. They usually drive to the end of the street, flip it, and drive back down the other side. So the guy comes back down the other side picking up all the trash. As he's like 2 houses away, i push my stuff across the street so he can pick it up, but he drives right past my cans! So now I have two huge trash cans FULL of stuff! What should I do?
 
I thought they were called sanitary engineers ... definitely not professional there! lol...

I'm sure their service contract makes it very clear that you are responsible for having the cans out by 6 a.m. or something and they can just hide behind that, as lousy of customer service as that might be. Options are:

a) If the cans are full of bagged garbage, put on some gloves and nasty clothes and double-bag them into those heavy-duty outdoor bags, load in your wheels, and either dump in a church dumpster (those dumpsters are charged on a flat monthly fee so it won't cost the church anything so long as there' still room for their garbage) or go to the local dump or transfer station (although they'll surely charge you exorbitantly as their pricing usually starts at like half a ton or something).
b) If the cans are full of loose garbage ... I would just bag your garbage for the next week and then put it all out next week. Down here, you get like 3-4 times a year where you can put out "extra" garbage that doesn't fit in the rolly cans but you have to call ahead .. not sure what it's like for you guys.
c) On that note, you may be able to call and schedule an off-cycle pickup ... although, again, that will probably cost exorbitantly.
d) Put Wall on retainer to be your backup garbage-putter-outer-overnight as a safety net going forward

I can see the two full cans though ... my household (and there are just 3 of us ... no dual-production stinky diapers) somehow manages to fill a 96-gallon household waste can, a 96-gallon recyclable waste can, and half of a 64-gallon outdoor waste can every week. It just doesn't seem physically possible to me and yet, there it is...
 
Gilga said:
I thought they were called sanitary engineers ... definitely not professional there! lol...

I'm sure their service contract makes it very clear that you are responsible for having the cans out by 6 a.m. or something and they can just hide behind that, as lousy of customer service as that might be. Options are:

a) If the cans are full of bagged garbage, put on some gloves and nasty clothes and double-bag them into those heavy-duty outdoor bags, load in your wheels, and either dump in a church dumpster (those dumpsters are charged on a flat monthly fee so it won't cost the church anything so long as there' still room for their garbage) or go to the local dump or transfer station (although they'll surely charge you exorbitantly as their pricing usually starts at like half a ton or something).
b) If the cans are full of loose garbage ... I would just bag your garbage for the next week and then put it all out next week. Down here, you get like 3-4 times a year where you can put out "extra" garbage that doesn't fit in the rolly cans but you have to call ahead .. not sure what it's like for you guys.
c) On that note, you may be able to call and schedule an off-cycle pickup ... although, again, that will probably cost exorbitantly.
d) Put Wall on retainer to be your backup garbage-putter-outer-overnight as a safety net going forward

I can see the two full cans though ... my household (and there are just 3 of us ... no dual-production stinky diapers) somehow manages to fill a 96-gallon household waste can, a 96-gallon recyclable waste can, and half of a 64-gallon outdoor waste can every week. It just doesn't seem physically possible to me and yet, there it is...
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You forgot the composter...that is why there is so much silly!
 
As my High School English teacher frequently reminded our class about the importance of our education "Sanitary Engineers, $10 an hour and all you can eat..."
 
Plankeye said:
As my High School English teacher frequently reminded our class about the importance of our education "Sanitary Engineers, $10 an hour and all you can eat..."
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I don't know about where you live, but even in the middle of NE Trashmen make allot more than $10/hour
 
Yeah, thanks to unions and such I understand it to easily be a $60-80K per job. But I don't begrudge them a thing (except when they're being rude to Tree...) ... halfway through a route it stinks in a stomach-curdling way and landfills/transfers centers are so ghastly that I don't even have a metaphor. Working on profit optimization for an "environmental services" firm for a few months was not one of my more glamorous stints in management consulting...

Got me thinking, Tree ... if you garbage truck is one of those one-armed bandit things (and I expect it is), I wonder if the robotic arm was on the wrong side of the truck when he was driving back by your house and he didn't want to flip a u-turn to get in position to grab your cans.
 
It is the one-armed bandit type! But i pushed my cans to the other side of the street so he could get them... Next Tuesday morning I'm going to bust out my water balloon launcher, and shoot some ripe diapers at his front wind shield...
 
treebranch said:
It is the one-armed bandit type! But i pushed my cans to the other side of the street so he could get them... Next Tuesday morning I'm going to bust out my water balloon launcher, and shoot some ripe diapers at his front wind shield...
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How very Christian of you. Is that commandment in the book of 2 Opinions? Think it's chapter 6

Perhaps if you were not so worried about being broke and did you chores we wouldn't have this tread.
 
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Wups, you did say that hustled them across the street! Well what an absolute jerk!

treebranch said:
It is the one-armed bandit type! But i pushed my cans to the other side of the street so he could get them... Next Tuesday morning I'm going to bust out my water balloon launcher, and shoot some ripe diapers at his front wind shield...
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To me the remarkable part of the quote above is where you refer to your water balloon launcher as if it's as common as a hedge trimmer or vacuum or something ... who exactly has water balloon launchers just sitting around? Besides Tree apparently?
 
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Gilga said:
Wups, you did say that hustled them across the street! Well what an absolute jerk!



To me the remarkable part of the quote above is where you refer to your water balloon launcher as if it's as common as a hedge trimmer or vacuum or something ... who exactly has water balloon launchers just sitting around? Besides Tree apparently?
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Doesn't everybody? <puts her son's toys away>
 
Seems to me like it would have been easier if they had just picked them up now, as opposed to having to take extra time next week and grab bags that the one arm bandit can't grab.... more manual labor for them next week.... someone wasn't thinking....
 
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