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Minor things that bother you
kphoger:
--- Quote from: 1995hoo on November 27, 2019, 02:56:12 PM ---—People in my neighborhood who put out their trash on Sunday morning for Monday pickup instead of waiting until after sunset. Also, people who put their trash out when it’s a holiday with no trash pickup (like Thanksgiving) and then leave it out there for four days as if that’ll get the garbage men to come pick it up. This is all the more annoying when it’s windy.
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I have no idea what my trash collection company's holidays are. So I put my trash out in case they work on a day I might assume they'd be off. If they don't come by because apparently they weren't working that day, then I also don't know what day they will be coming to pick it up. So I keep it out there until they do. It beats having two week's worth of trash in the can.
Rothman:
Standing left on a Metro escalator was a biggie when I commuted from Greenbelt to Dupont Circle.
1995hoo:
--- Quote from: kphoger on November 27, 2019, 03:03:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: 1995hoo on November 27, 2019, 02:56:12 PM ---—People in my neighborhood who put out their trash on Sunday morning for Monday pickup instead of waiting until after sunset. Also, people who put their trash out when it’s a holiday with no trash pickup (like Thanksgiving) and then leave it out there for four days as if that’ll get the garbage men to come pick it up. This is all the more annoying when it’s windy.
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I have no idea what my trash collection company's holidays are. So I put my trash out in case they work on a day I might assume they'd be off. If they don't come by because apparently they weren't working that day, then I also don't know what day they will be coming to pick it up. So I keep it out there until they do. It beats having two week's worth of trash in the can.
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Ours is simple: If trash day falls on July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s, the pickup is cancelled. The year before last this one guy put his trash out for New Year’s even though there was no pickup and left it there all week despite howling winds. It kept blowing into our yard, so I picked it all up and dumped it all on his front stoop, which is sheltered and out of the wind. Damn annoying. Just because the trash is out for pickup doesn’t mean it’s no longer your trash and no longer your responsibility (obviously “your” not meaning kphoger).
Beltway:
People who say, for example, "Two thousand and nineteen" instead of "Twenty nineteen."
The "Two thousand and … " should be for 1 thru 9, not for 10 and above.
Mercy, we are 19 years into this century and I still frequently hear this!
kphoger:
--- Quote from: 1995hoo on November 27, 2019, 03:26:05 PM ---
--- Quote from: kphoger on November 27, 2019, 03:03:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: 1995hoo on November 27, 2019, 02:56:12 PM ---—People in my neighborhood who put out their trash on Sunday morning for Monday pickup instead of waiting until after sunset. Also, people who put their trash out when it’s a holiday with no trash pickup (like Thanksgiving) and then leave it out there for four days as if that’ll get the garbage men to come pick it up. This is all the more annoying when it’s windy.
--- End quote ---
I have no idea what my trash collection company's holidays are. So I put my trash out in case they work on a day I might assume they'd be off. If they don't come by because apparently they weren't working that day, then I also don't know what day they will be coming to pick it up. So I keep it out there until they do. It beats having two week's worth of trash in the can.
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Ours is simple: If trash day falls on July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Year’s, the pickup is cancelled. The year before last this one guy put his trash out for New Year’s even though there was no pickup and left it there all week despite howling winds. It kept blowing into our yard, so I picked it all up and dumped it all on his front stoop, which is sheltered and out of the wind. Damn annoying. Just because the trash is out for pickup doesn’t mean it’s no longer your trash and no longer your responsibility (obviously “your” not meaning kphoger).
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meh. I still don't know what days my trash company has off, don't know how I would find out, and frankly don't intend to.
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