Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Dumpster Digging
This morning I was working out and had our screen door open, so it would be cooler in our living room. I heard a whole lot of clanging around going on outside. Being the nosy individual that I am, (AKA, a people watcher) I put on my glasses and looked out the screen door. I saw these two folks putting very large garbage bags of glass items into their car. One of the dumpsters for our apartment complex is right near out apartment. It made me feel so sad inside. What ashame that someone would be so desperate for money that they would go digging in some gross dumpster to collect stuff. Then I'm also left to wonder, if they are so poor that they need to dig in the dumpster, then why do they have a car? Granted, it wasn't a nice car but a car nonetheless. I guess I don't need to judge anyway, but I just found myself thinking, "I feel very sorry for you poor people."
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I had a friend in college whose mom did that. They had a lot of money and her mom dug in the dumpsters for junk. She loved it! Personally, I think it is disgusting and when my friend told me that her mom did that I laughed because I thought she was joking. She wasn't. I went to her mom's house and it looked like a junk yard. It was a beautiful home with junk everywhere. PEOPLE ARE WEIRD!
Maybe they were going to recycle all the glass?
When I was little my older brother would crawl into dumpsters and then we'd shut the lid on him and then open it back up and he'd climb out and apparently it was the funnest game ever. Kids are such freaks.
They probably are millionaires, just driving their recycling car,...they get all the bottles and cans you throw out, and they make a literal fortune. They were probably wearing their yucky clothes so none of their rich friends would notice them, and they probably had those fake gross hillbilly teeth to seal the deal.
Don't you go gettin' any big ideas--since the dumpster is so close to your apartment. Remember back when I was such a fanatic about recycling aluminum cans? I turned in about three hundred pounds of cans and got about $5 for all of the effort.
Okay, so I know I'm supposed to comment on this particular post, but I have a confession. I'm a passive blogger. I'm just sitting down now to check my own blog after 2 (?) weeks of inactivity. I have just had the delightful oppotunity of reading all of your posts from the last several weeks and I want to tell you how much I adore you and your written wit. Thank you so much for including me in such a positive way in your previous post about reconnecting. You are a gem through and through. I hope you can forgive my passivity in the blogsphere.
Well, I hate to admit it, but sometimes you might be able to find some great stuff in a dumpster! I am not like Katrinas mom, and I don't do it often, but if I was driving by, and saw sometime that looked appealing then I would probally go and check it out. I hope you don't think less of me! and I would always wash my hands afterwards!
This reminds me of when my mom (yep, your mother-in-law!) had to dog through a dumpster at McDonalds, on a church activity, looking for a retainer. A girl left hers on her tray before she dumped it. They found it too.
I think this is gross by the way. When I think about some of the things I throw away, I would never go diggin'.
Just to clarify. Mom had to DIG, not dog. But dogging in a dumpster is sorta funny too.
Sigh, it always makes me so sad when I am just going about my happy little perfect business and then I see someone whose life is obviously not just all happy and easy. It gives me a little reality check and makes me feel bad for not being more grateful to just be able to be happily exercising in my living room :) or running errands with my kids or walking into a store or whatever! Just normal easy happy things.
maybe they are just so GREEN that they couldnt stand the thought of un-recycled bottles. :) we have got a lot of greenies/crazies up here. it wouldnt surprise me.
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