Being country bumpkins, when we visit large cities we often find things that are definitely odd to us, though pretty normal to those who make their homes there. Like locking up your garbage.
Ours here--in very similar containers--might be bothered occasionally by a stray dog, but never so much that it would warrant these efforts. Things are much more casual in the country. In fact, our garbage man will go behind the gate and get the can if we forget to put it out by the road. If we are to be gone over the week, we must remember to ask him not to do that, as the extra courtesy does not extend to returning the can to the back--and a garbage can by the road for days on end is a definite security problem.
And yard waste? yes, I understand in the suburbs to separate it from other stuff, but what yard waste is there in this concrete jungle?
What did you discover that was odd this week? You might find what I've been posting over at 365 during the last week to be odd. Some really fun stuff from our city jaunt.
4 had something to say:
The only time we would need to lock up our garbage is to keep the Magpies, and racoons out of it. Yes Magpies, they are very smart, a guy in our town taught one how to say a few words.
I will have to keep my eye open odd observances now.
One might say that garbage is such a waste ...
Locked garbage?? Indeed odd - but not if you pay by the pound to have it hauled away. That was proposed here, but not implemented. (You do pay at the landfill for the priviledge of hauling it yourself!) For recycling, the county distributed bar coded bins so they can track who is (or is not) recycling. So far they have not started weighing our bin on pickup day.
They must be very protective of their garbage!
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