Originally Posted By peeaanuut Taking a note from Lisanne(sp?) tickle the minds.....you get to play whatever for a day and say what you would do if you were in charge of whatever So this first one is easy. If you were in charge of the trashmen in your neighborhood, how would your run them? if this flops, sorry, but Im bored at work today.
Originally Posted By m2 I'd make sure they didn't leave the cans halfway out in the street after emptying them. I'd also make sure they don't leave the cans in the middle of the driveway making it impossible for me to get in my driveway without getting out and moving the cans first. I live on a curve and leaving my car in the road while I get out to move the cans is at times pretty dangerous. It bothers me that they get to make the rules. They get to tell you where to put your can, what way it has to face the street, etc, but that they don't care where they set it after they empty it or what condition they leave it in.
Originally Posted By BurtonsSeattleSally I would make sure they came later in the day. I cannot stand that they come on Thursday at like 6:30 in the morning. I live in an apartment complex and I happen to be closure to the dumpsters and dont have to wake up during the week until about 7:7:30. I hate that I get woken up by the beeping and the noise right past my bedroom window that early when I could still have another hour to sleep in. GRRRRR....
Originally Posted By Labuda I'd have their route start no earlier than 8 am, and I'd make sure that all trashcans were returned to the property of the owners.
Originally Posted By Ursula I would shoot the guy who invented the beep-beep-beep-beep back-up alert. I live in an apartment on the third floor...no where NEAR the trash or the shoot. Yet, twice a week with the beep-beep-beep-beep-beep and for what? They are in the parking structure beneath us! They used to just take the large bins out the side doors in the parking structure but now they have this small vehicle that pulls them the entire length of the building. One of these days I will wake up with a migraine and I know I will throw things from my balcony at them. Like a rock. Or an egg.
Originally Posted By t1lersm0m I'd tell the driver of the truck not to park in teh middle of the road. If I'm running late on a Friday, I always get stuck behind the garbage truck, and I get stuck there for several minutes while he sits there like an idiot in the middle of the road. Ignorance is not bliss......
Originally Posted By DlandDug Just wanted to pop in on this threadand say I'd rather be in charge of #1 than #2...
Originally Posted By threeundertwo >>I would make sure they came later in the day. >> Ironically, I feel the opposite. We have narrow streets (cars can barely pass), and if they don't get through their route on time, the mommy-van brigade gets trapped behind the trucks. Everybody gets impatient because we want to drop the little house-apes off at school so we can get on with our important bon-bon eating and soaps. The recycling truck comes even later in the morning and the traffic backup in the neighborhood is awful.
Originally Posted By bloona We have "wheely bins" ie bins(cans?) with wheels! We have three at the moment, one for general rubbish ( garbage?) one for garden waste and one for paper waste, we are getting a glass one ( not a bin made of glass, dont be silly..lol) soon. They came on different weeks / days. So you have to look a what everyone else has put out. Then they just leave them "close" to the drive ways. Here's me with stroller dashing to nursery, having to move everyones bins so I can get passed!! My rule...collect all the bins on one day, build us somewhere to store them so whole roads dont look like dustbin shops ( garbage can stores...lol....are we speaking the same language here?...really? and make sure strollers and wheelchairs can get by afterwards!
Originally Posted By tiggerdis_ How about not tossing my garbage can back to my driveway. I have two garbage cans with wheels like bloona, and they both now have a broken wheel from being thrown. I know they're in a hurry, but....
Originally Posted By chickendumpling May sound nuts but I love my trash guys. They are so nice to me. They even leave me little notes now and then. The only thing I'd do different is have mixed recycling. We don't do that in this county and it is a huge pet peeve of mine. So much so that I am taking the matter up with The Man.
