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October 27, 2005
trashcan hi-jinx
Trash pickup in our neighborhood is on Mondays and Thursdays, and when I put the trashcan by the curb this past Monday, I had no idea what an unnecessarily dramatic mess it would result in. One of our neighbors is very rarely home and sometimes doesn't leave his trashcan out, and this Monday was one of those days. I got home and noticed that the trash guys had put our trashcan in front of his house and didn't think anything of it until the next morning. I heard a trashcan being dragged up the sidewalk and thought he was just moving it back in front of our house, but when I went to bring it in, it was gone. He'd nabbed our trash can. I went over and rang his doorbell to ask politely if he'd ended up with two trashcans, and if so, could I have ours back please. He didn't answer though, so over the next couple of days I kept checking to see if he was home so I could go over and retrieve our trashcan. I think he's a vampire or something because there never was any indication that he was home, and yet he managed to put a trashcan out this morning. I noticed it on my to work and was determined to get home early enough to nab it back. It looked like my brilliant trashcan recon plan was going to be foiled because my "quick stops" on the way home from work took two hours, but I still got home before he did. The very first thing I did was open the garage and snatch that damn trashcan back. Here's hoping that I didn't steal it back from the wrong guy.
Posted by oracle at October 27, 2005 7:56 PM in the second year