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July 18, 2006
Lesser of two evils
I was walking home from the gym today when I came upon this sign taped to a mailbox:
Now, if you ask me, is this really that big of a deal? Now, I understand that some people take great offense to people who put their garbage in their dumpster. I would probably be upset if somebody routinely put bags of garbage into a dumpster, but I don't know if I would call the police about it. This would be especially so if I had to pay per garbage bag or something, but I do not think that is the case in Chicago.
(Side note: my previous home, which was condemned and turned into multimillion dollar houses, had a difficult dumpster to reach. Instead, I would throw my trash into the dumpster for the 40-unit apartment building next door. I heard nary a word!)
Anyway, if the choice was between having somebody put a little plastic bag in my garbage, or leaving the poop on my lawn, I think I'd take the bag in the garbage. As for the author of the sign, all I can really say is, "take a chill pill!" It's not the most neighborly of signs, nor is it grammatically correct. In fact, I'm a little miffed that some of my neighbors are slightly antisocial. But I already knew that.
Posted by oz115 at July 18, 2006 01:59 PM