# My garbage can is full of pee **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 6, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372 "2004-11-06T18:43:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/1 "2004-11-06T18:43:42Z")
Every Thursday morning, I go to fetch the garbage can and discover dog pee. The garbage collectors leave the can on its side. The neighbors dog pees on the inside. I pick up the can, the pee runs to the bottom of the can in an odiferous wash. (Picking up the can from the bottom lets the pee into a crevice from which it is difficult to extract it.) Hosing dilutes the pee but does not eradicate it. Winter is coming and hosing will be a problem. It would probably be unreasonable to take the garbage can and pour the dog pee on the neighbor’s car upholstery, right? Yeah, I thought so. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/2 "2004-11-06T18:47:42Z")
\ And all you dog walkers can stop pissing on my no parking sign. \ ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/3 "2004-11-06T20:36:16Z")
Have you tried talking to your neighbors? Or leaving a six-pack on top of your garbage can with a note asking the garbage collectors to please leave the thing standing up after they go? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/4 "2004-11-06T20:51:11Z")
How very typical of bourgeois attitudes toward the working class! A “six-pack”! Didn’t even consider a tart and sassy merlot? A snappy young chardonnay? A CD of show tunes? A couple of tickets to “The Vagina Monologues”? ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/5 "2004-11-06T20:51:42Z")
Spay the can down with ammonia, the dogs will stay away from it. You may have to do it a couple of times. ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/6 "2004-11-06T20:53:33Z")
> [@Stuffy](#): > > **Spay** the can down with ammonia, the dogs will stay away from it. You may have to do it a couple of times. Uh “spray” ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/7 "2004-11-06T20:58:24Z")
Remember folks, always be sure to spay or neuter your trash cans. **luci** : hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/8 "2004-11-06T20:58:25Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > How very typical of bourgeois attitudes toward the working class! A “six-pack”! Didn’t even consider a tart and sassy merlot? A snappy young chardonnay? A CD of show tunes? A couple of tickets to “The Vagina Monologues”? So… I should’ve said “two six-packs?” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/9 "2004-11-06T21:15:05Z")
Full disclosure: I have actually been a garbageman. Made as much as my salary recycling for repair appliances, TV’s, stuff like that, that weren’t really broken. To my dying day, I will never outgrow my burning hatred for one class of person: people who dump their cat litter without bagging it, in the warm summer rain. It creates a mixture of exotic hyrdrocarbons and methane that you cannot imagine. If you do this to your garbageman, and he cores you with a corkscrew, and I’m on the jury…he walks. ---
**Author:** ![raindog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@raindog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raindog)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2004, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/10 "2004-11-06T23:32:24Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > How very typical of bourgeois attitudes toward the working class! A “six-pack”! Didn’t even consider a tart and sassy merlot? A snappy young chardonnay? A CD of show tunes? A couple of tickets to “The Vagina Monologues”? LOL!! ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/11 "2004-11-07T00:20:48Z")
Yeah, neighbor’s dogs…that’s it. :: Looks around nervously :: ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/12 "2004-11-07T02:22:07Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > How very typical of bourgeois attitudes toward the working class! A “six-pack”! Didn’t even consider a tart and sassy merlot? A snappy young chardonnay? A CD of show tunes? A couple of tickets to “The Vagina Monologues”? My garbage gets picked up late, so I’ve met my garbagepeople. If I gave them a sassy merlot, they wouldn’t know what to do with it. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-garbage-can-is-full-of-pee/273372/13 "2004-11-07T06:41:29Z")
Mine would, if you picked Merlot up from a corner on Two Notch.