Then ya shoulda written the script yourself!
You just had to write this on the very day that I have to take out the recycling bin, didn’t you? 
A few months ago, after the recycling collection on Tuesday, two recycling bins appeared in front of my parents’ driveway. We were confused so my mother called the appropriate department in the town hall and someone there eventually figured out it belonged to a house diagonally across the street. (I assume they also called to report their recycling bin missing.)
Now I need to remember to put their address on the bin that does belong to them, just in case this happens again.
I like the way my town does it.
The city only uses dumpsters. They put two or three dumpsters in the alley of each block in town.
You can use any dumpster in town that you wish to use.
You can pay to have one put at a specific place, but even then, it is open to everyone to use.
Some years go we had a dumpster behind our office. We are across the alley from the recycling center and there was some empty space between the recycling center and the curb so we asked them to move our dumpster to that empty space to make it easier for everyone to use. They did so and faced it inside the recycling center and then added a couple more dumpsters.
Also, there is no garbage pickup day. They will empty the dumpster as often as needed. Sometimes, on quiet Sunday, they will even empty the dumpsters then.
One Saturday, i was talking to the director of streets in the back alley when someone pulled up and asked where he could dump the trash from an old house they were emptying it out. The director of streets told him to just use the dumpsters in our alley from one end of town to the the other. He did so and then on Sunday, the director of streets brought the garbage truck around to dump all the dumpsters in the entire alley.
Dude, Where’s my Garbage Bin?
Gotta leave something for the audience to go “Ewwww!”
I contacted them using the form on their website. I got a response within the hour saying they will deliver a replacement bin tomorrow. I was slightly concerned that they would charge me for it because their website stated that there’s a charge for replacing an undamaged bin, and in my mind missing ≠ damaged. But there was no mention of a charge, so I assume this is a routine thing for them.
My regular garbage bin also happens to be damaged (it’s usable, but it’s got a big crack in it), so I took the opportunity to request that it be replaced, too.
Our bins have a white bar on them for just purpose. I put my address on with a Sharpie. Have to renew it every now and then because it fades n the sunlight.
Co-incidently, we just got a notice today that our city will be replacing all of our bins this spring ‘in order to promote proper separation of trash and recycling’ - we’ve long [about 14 years] had two big bins for each residence, with different color lids, but somehow slightly larger bins with different separate colors is going to make it easier for us… Yeah right. The last batch of bins had bar code numbers printed/painted on them that the delivery crew was supposed to scan as they dropped them off, but that didn’t happen. I suspect the new bins will be similarly coded, and eventually tied to specific residences - many European trash trucks have weight sensors on the hydraulic arms, so charging for trash by the pound [kilo?] is likely to be coming to a city near you soon… PS: the lid hinge on one of ours got broken, and I ‘fixed’ it with a scrap of broom handle - in the process dislodging a curious flexible printed circuit lodged in the hollow bin handle - yup, the trash cans had RFID tags all along.
Exactly so! I did exactly the same with a Sharpie, and it’s completely faded. I’m sure the only way to get your street address permanently on there is to write it out with a sign-painter’s brush and black paint, or make a stencil and use spray paint!
I was thinking of writing the address on the inside of the lid so fading wouldn’t be an issue.
You can also put your phone number on it as well…
He’d be the aging President who has a secret buried deep in his past, provides various quips to lighten the gloom while held by the terrorists, and manages to get in one surprise blow to save the hero, who then defeats the terrorists.
Last seen with his arm in a sling, and a blood smeared forehead, providing words of wisdom that will ease international tensions.
So cute y’all have people who come all the way over to your house to collect your garbage and haul it away.
High livin’ for sure.
Heck yah! We also have runnin water and ‘lectricity! And sewer, too!
Cement pond?
I know, right?
We’re lucky at the moment. Our transfer station (where we deliver our trash) is now open every day of the week except Wednesday. It used to be only Monday, Thursday, and Saturday, but it expanded because the county is renovating the transfer station one community over, so for now those residents also use our facility.
Although the extra open days feel like luxury, I’m sure you can guess the one day each week when the trash is stinky and we really want to get rid of it. Wednesday, of course.
This is more of a Gerard Butler movie.
Good casting call.