Taking the Trash

It's happened again!  I put out the trash and before the city trash collector comes, someone comes along and picks through it and takes some of it.  I put the two rollaway bed frames out to the curb on Tuesday afternoon and they were still there this morning,  But while I was in the cellar getting a few more items to put out to the curb, someone took them.  I talked to the crossing guard at the corner about it and she told me that someone had come in a truck and picked up both bed frames.  Amazing.

Also, I had taken a set of metal TV trays out of the cellar for the trash.  They were completely rusty and of no use nor interest to me.  This morning I found one more of the TV trays still in the cellar. As I picked it up to take out to the curb, I suddenly realized that as I had been getting the paper recyclables out to the curb this morning, I hadn't noticed the TV trays there.  Someone had already taken them.  It's one of those things that your mind notices even though it doesn't make note of it as you first see the scene.  You realize it later.  Sure enough, when I took the remaining tray to the curb, I saw for sure that the others had been taken.  The bed frames were taken while I was finding the last TV tray. 

I don't know if the things were taken for scrap metal or for use.  I wonder about that, but not for long.  I'm glad they're gone.

Posted by: NJ on 5/25/2006 6:55:59 AM , 3 comments