Are you worthy of my empty cans?
I've accumulated 2 garbage bags full of empty cans and bottles which have taken residence in my trunk for over 2 weeks now. I was supposed to take them to the Albertsons but I keep thinking that instead I will get the whole heapful to some worthy less-fortunate family or homeless person, often found going through the recycling bins in the alley behind my apartment. The hope is that when I see one next time rummaging through the bins and garbage in agonizing disappointment, I will stop them, offer them my giant bags and announce in a superman voice that they should "take the day off and go play with their children". When exchanged the $4-6 gift will balance the universe, bring me good karma and conveniently satisfy my philanthropic self with my own lazyness.
I almost gave them away last week but the guy who was going through our bins was driving a car and putting them in his trunk. I figured if he could afford a car then he probably wasn't worthy.
...In writing this I suddenly feel connected to my mom whom I recall when I was young used to buy a case of Labbatt's Blue for the garbagemen. Every year around Christmas, she would wake up early and wait for them to come then run out in her PJ's, bottles clanging together. The hope was that this gift of booze would bring good favor any time we went over the 2 garbage bag limit in Vancouver.
I almost gave them away last week but the guy who was going through our bins was driving a car and putting them in his trunk. I figured if he could afford a car then he probably wasn't worthy.
...In writing this I suddenly feel connected to my mom whom I recall when I was young used to buy a case of Labbatt's Blue for the garbagemen. Every year around Christmas, she would wake up early and wait for them to come then run out in her PJ's, bottles clanging together. The hope was that this gift of booze would bring good favor any time we went over the 2 garbage bag limit in Vancouver.