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22-July-04, 03:07 PM
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| Apex Master Tech  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Calgary Canada
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  |  My Garbage Man Hates me... okay flame me if you want but I need to get this off my chest.... My garbage man hates me....How do I know this? Well.. becuase he frikin leaves half of my garbage lying there and picks up everyone elses!! Now I know there is a weight limit but gawddammit my lawn was growing about 6" a week with the rain and now the sun we've been having and I have 6 bags of grass out there! The worst thing is this has been going on for over a month now. Week 1 - I had no small bags so I put it all in one big bag. Well that was a mistake, the bag was left and my can was thrown to the back of my parking pad. So I went and got small bags and cut my lawn again. Week 2 - 3 small bags of grass, 1 big bag of grass and a bunch of bags full of stinky diapers and other household stuff. Tuesday rolls around and the big bag is still there, can is broken and 1 small bag of garbage...grass is still growin like mofo too. Week 3 - I get three more bags of clippings and add that to my pile...Tuesday rolls around and only the big bag is gone now and I have three small bags of grass lying there...my neighbor is laughing his ass off at this. Week 4 - So I decide to get sneaky...mow the lawn and spread my garbage out between my neighbors before I leave for work in the morning.....get this all three bags from last week are there and he BROUGHT BACK two others!! How the frick did he know!?!??! Week 5 - So this week mowed the lawn again and broke it up into 4 smaller lighter bags. My garbage can is now split at the top, the wheels are busted off now and the only thing that holds it down in the wind is a smelly bag of 3 weeks worth of dog poop from my backyard. However, I pulled weeds out of the back alley around my parking pad and added them to the can so the bag o' poo was hidden (jic). Tuesday night I came home and all the grass is still there and my can is crammed under the tent trailer...I had to lift the trailer up to get it out. The worst thing is I have called the city a couple of times about this and they say "we'll pick it up next week sir"...what?!?!? There will be more next week you fat ass moron!! Put two and two together!! The more he leaves the more he has to pick up!! What makes you think he is going to pick up 8 bags that I will have next week when he doesn't even pick up two!! How is this my fault?? Gee I am sure sorry as sh!t that my lawn grew and I take care of it and all...if I let the frickin thing grow I would have the city up in my azz for that now wouldn't I?? whew..okay I am exhausted now.....what did I ever do to him?? Should I write him a card or something? "Sorry about the bag of 3 weeks worth of Dog Poo, but I think you're doing a great job!" yeesh...stoopid garbage man....
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22-July-04, 03:14 PM
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| Apex Tech Fanatic  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Philadelphia, PA
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| You know man sometimes life really sucks leave him a plate of cookies that might help just make sure they dont smell like dirty diapers that might make things worse
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22-July-04, 03:40 PM
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| Apex Tech Fanatic  Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Holt, MI
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 | yeha my service dosent take lawn waste...do they normaly take it? maybe now they cought on to waht it is? do you have a place you could put a compost heap or have need for one?
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22-July-04, 03:43 PM
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| Lokie's Personal WU-Hoe Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: WI
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| Here we take all our plant and metal waste to a special dumping ground. There should be some place that resembles what we have around your city, just check in the phone book. Investing in a lawn mower that chops the grass into tiny pieces, leaving you without any grass you have to pick up would be a good idea too  |
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22-July-04, 03:55 PM
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| Apex Master Tech Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Calgary Canada
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| lmao...I have often thought about a goat as it would give the dogs something to do during the day....and I do have a mulching option on my mower but when your grass is 6" long that is a tremendous amount of mulch and it would choke the lawn...I know "mow it beofre it gets that long" but there's the rub as I couldn't cuz it was either raining on the days I could mow it or I wasn't home...so it grew and grew and grew....as for disposal..up here in the great white north we have land to spare apparently and they take plant matter...they take just about anything they think their truck will crush..they have taken my lawn clippings in the past but this year I have somehow pee'd in his coffee or something as my neighbors lawn leftovers all get scooped up and they have almost as many bags as I do...I have more lawn so henceforth more bags
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22-July-04, 04:06 PM
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| The Who? Hoe  Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: If only I knew...
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 |  That was great. Sorry to hear about your trash woes....maybe this might help?:http://www.calgary.ca/DocGallery/BU/...ks/20m2001.pdf Anyway....if you really want to get him, mod your garbage can into one huge friggin jack-in-the-box.....and make sure you get it on tape.  Just a suggestion...
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23-July-04, 08:26 AM
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| Apex's Squirrel Revolutionary  Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Colorado
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| well next time you can stand out there when he comes around. watch his ass, and if he dont take all your trash, get his name and report his ass. if he does, well you know what to do from now on
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23-July-04, 09:12 AM
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| Da Hammer Man  Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: NJ, where libs vote for libs, bitch about them, then vote for them again. Amazing!!?
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Actually, whenever I've had more than the allowable pick-up limit I leave a six pack. It's worked for me evertime so far (but if they take the beer and not the trash then I'd recomend kicking some serious a$$).
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23-July-04, 09:45 AM
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lol Thanks |Anonymous| for the link..I have looked at that thing a couple times during this "ordeal" and other then the dog poop I am pretty sure I am in the clear...but really what the hell else are you going to do with Dog Poop?? However my can itself is trashed there is no hope for a cool mod out of it....I only leave it out there in spite as he is the one who busted it so he gets to deal with the sharp plastic edges, no handles and uber stinkiness from dog poo in the sun...and it's staying out there until there is nothing left but the base....as for the beer idea fatsobob....I have considered it and it may be my last course of action....and as for the mcdonalds has a dumpster option...well last night I took some of the garbage to where they are buiding new houses in my area and threw it clandestine like in the cleanpacks they use for the construction garbage....
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27-July-04, 01:28 AM
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| Apex Master Tech  Join Date: Jun 2004
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| hmm this is a tough one. personally I think you should go get yourself 2 very nice garbage cans and get everything inside. remember this guy is busting his hump in the heat all day and it's a prety stinky job. your going to need a garbage can sooner or later. Maybe take the time to talk to him and ask him what types of cans he perfers to handle. You being concerned about his welfare would go farther than a warm sixpack of beer anyday. Calling into his work and haveing his ass chewed by his boss won't get you very far. maybe wait by the curb with a nice cold galss of water or gatoraid to help broach the okward moment of intorductions. This man picks up your **** so you ain't got much to hide from him. Be nice and be understanding. You never know one of those stinky dipers might have busted open on him and he is prety hot about your failure to seal a bag properly. 2 sided street, but your both wanting to walk on the same side..give and take here and you could possibly have a new friend.
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27-July-04, 01:35 AM
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| Smooth Operator  Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Eugene OR
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   | Why I love Alaska - lawns?! We don't need no stinkin' lawns - we perfer natural landscaping! Why push a lawn mower when you got 3 moose to eat it eh?
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27-July-04, 03:00 AM
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Hey man I live in Calgary and they never refuse our garbage, unless its like an electronic device or something, but we just but them in a bag and all is solved. I doubt it can grow 6" in one week man, ours only grows 2" in a week and we have lots of sun and rain. Where in the city do you live? I live in the SE and they are great about my garbage. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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27-July-04, 04:03 AM
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That's what I'm thinkin' too. Could be the garbage man, but that's alot of extra effot on his part just to gain the chance at getting his @$$ pulled out his nose by a superior... especially the time you distributed the bags amongst your neighbors... someone was watching. I just hope the bags from the construction dumpster don't show back up tomorrow...
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