January 30, 2006
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It’s garbage day!Thought I would give all you ladies with men who bitch
about taking out the garbage a little ammunition. And for those
of you living the single life, is it really all that bad? Garbage
day could be worse.Normally here in our building each tenant pays another designated
tenant a certain amount of euro each month and they pay the total
garbage bill. But were special. We can’t do that it’s way
to frickin hard to figure out what goes in each of the 5 cans and when
its your month to take them out to the curb. It’s also way to
hard to figure out when the money is due and who is collecting for that
month. See now me I would think it would be whoever takes it out
that month well its their turn to collect…..I wouldn’t know because
we have never been able to get on the building chore list so we don’t
pay anything to anyone and therefore our garbage is our problem.
Also you do have separate recycling days on top of it so beats me what
the exact system is but it would be nice to get clued in (I’m working
on it believe me.) So in lieu of taking our garbage down 2
flights of stairs and dropping it in a can here’s what we get to do
instead.We take it down two flights of stairs, carry it about a block to
the car. Spread plastic in back of car, load trash and
recycling. Start car drive about 8 k to the post. Go through
security. Drive clear around post to recycling area. Sort
and pat self on back for not just taking the easy way and tossing it
all in the dumpster. Go over to dumpster unload rest of
car. Try to drive to nearest public bathroom to wash all the
nasty off of
hands without touching the steering wheel of the car. Go to mail box hoping against hope to get something
besides airmail. Check library for newest arrivals. Pffftttt
waste of time miltary cut backs. Avoid PX like plague cause I
really don’t need anything, yet I never seem to leave empty
handed. Give up the wasting time and trying to act like we had a
reason for coming on post other than garbage day and go back
home. And yes, most of the last two months has been in the teens
temp wise
so it is no picnic weather wise either. Of course Summer bring
its own smelly part to the little trip so before it gets here again I
would love to know the system.
I’m working on it…..why couldn’t I be one of those people with an ear for languages?
Comments (10)
Speaking of ear for languages, I need to learn German so I can read the Petzi books you sent me! Yayyy! Just got ‘em today..looks like your letter had been put through the wringer..envelope was completely open..lucky the stuff stayed in. Damn postal service. Anyway, thank you so much! I’ll have Cappy read them to me one of these days..
Mate, I feel for you, I really do. I shouldn’t mention this, but for me? Taking out the rubbish involves popping the lid off and walking, oooh, fifteen steps to the front door – the bin’s right outside. Sorry. But I’m so happy to hear you recycle!
‘Fraid so, mate – but sympathetically, of course
I knew I felt a cackle……
Oh my! I should share this story with Toshi. He can’t manage to make the 30 second walk to the trash chute. ;o)
In Taiwan everyone just leaves their trash in piles and the garbage trucks come by at night to pick it up. The strange thing is that the garbage trucks play ice cream truck music. Kinda disappointing to all the expats who go running out for a push-up or a sidewalk sundae. ;o)
Thanks for the guestbook entry. I remedied the email issue. ;o) I loved your post about the googly eyes. It gave me hope that someday I’ll find it again and that maybe it will even last a lifetime. And your comment was perfect!
) And even better, it’s nice to know that someone has actually read all of those feelings that have just been floating around in the ether. It’s good to be heard. 
) (Someday I’m gonna learn how to insert those newfangled smilies!)
Never again will I fuss about having to walk a couple of steps to take out my garbage.
MKD takes care of all that trash… it was in our pre-nups along with yardwork and cleaning toilets (haha).
oh, and aren’t there any thrift stores there???
Ok — I’m trying it out … gonna see how good a student I am.
Pressing submit …
Woohoo! A new-fangled smiley!
That sounds like a really complicated way of organising the rubbish! We live on the 6th floor of a modern apartment block, and all I have to do is walk a short way down the corridor (10 steps at the most) to a door through which you find a sort of hole in the wall and you just throw all the rubbish down there. Not the recycling, you have to take that down in the lift to the rubbish room and sort that out yourself. It’s still a novelty to me that I can just throw most of my rubbish down a hole in the wall! hehe.