Garbage rant

sprauncey1

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Ok I really need to rant and my two kiddos are just not "good enough" listeners for this LOL!

A few weeks ago my neighbor got backed into by the garbage truck/recycling truck. Her car was totaled but she was fine. We live on the end of a street that is a dead end. So the truck comes in and goes down our side (South side) and then backs up and then backs down the other side (North side) to pick up the other side.

Well we just got a letter today stating that now we have to only put our cans on the North side (across the street from me) because the garbage truck has to back up. I just find this soooooo irritating. Mostly because I think it is a knee jerk reaction to the accident, which was caused by the driver backing up too fast (which they do a lot and I give them a WIDE bearth).

So now, I have to THREE times a week take my can out to put in front of my neighbors house. I have no control over who parks there and when, and they only (ha I say only!) have a two car garage which they use so no cans in front of their driveway (like I put ours since we have room). They also asked that people not park on the street on garbage days but I say again, this is three days a week (two garbage, one recycling yard debris) so the likelihood of that is not gonna happen. Or that means that I'm gonna have people constantly parked in front of my house.

And on top of this they STILL have to back down the street, so other than making my life more complicated and reducing the amount the driver has to drive by a little, it just doesn't make sense.

Its just little things like this that totally drive me crazy, but really I know they wouldn't do a thing if I called to complain! And other than taking the trash to the dump ourselves, there is no other choice!

Ok rant over....thanks guys! Who knew I felt so passionately about garbage!
 
we have a couple roads like that where I live. They dont ask you to put it on the other side of the road though thats stupid. Why can't the garbage men pick both sides of the road at once? In other words they go to one side get a couple then grab a couple from the other side til they collect the whole road. That is how they do it here
 
Or if that is to time-consuming Ive also seen it where they have two guys collecting the trash and each one collects one side
 
Oh see they don't even leave the truck.

It is just one guy and the truck has the arm thing that reaches out grabs the can and dumps it. But if we have to all squeeze our cans on one side of the road and people still park there, he's gonna have to get out, which will take more time!
 
Ohhhh I have never seen anything like that LOL Wel except for those huge dumpsters like they have behind stores or whatever. Our garbage men hold onto the back of the truck and the guy driving stops in between houses and the guys run and grab the cans, dump them and get back on the truck. Defenitely need to be physically fit to do that job!!
 
The same thing happens here for people in my neighborhood. I am unaffected by it but I can see how it would be annoying. I am always impressed with the driving skills of the man that comes through our neighborhood, it's a tight fit and he manages to manuever with several cars parked on the streets. I don't get why people don't just park in their driveways on trash day!

I guess living at the end of the street has it's disadvantages.
 
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