I have had it!
Currently: Preparing for my road trip with the girls!
Yesterday was just the most irritating of days. Everywhere I went, people just would NOT stop staring. Most people, when they stare at you, will look away once they’ve been caught, but there was one girl, I’d say she was about 13-14, who just KEPT ON staring at me the whole time I pumped gas (she and her brother were in the car next to mine at the gas station). Didn’t her mama ever teach her that was rude?
I wondered if maybe I had sprouted a second head. A quick check in the mirror told me that no, I had not. Did I need to wear a posture corrector? No, it was not that either. Even though I really, truly do need to practice better posture. Was it my stunning beauty, then? No? I figured finally it must be the steam coming out of my ears and the fire shooting out of my eyes or something.
That was entirely possible, since I came home after dropping the boys off at school to find that the trash collectors IGNORED THE BAGS AROUND THE TRASH CAN.
Oh. My. GAWWWDDDD!!! I already hate the trash collectors of Madison county because every week without fail, they either set or throw my garbage can into the very middle of my driveway, which means if I’ve been at work, I have to just bump it with my car to move it out of the way. There is a drainage ditch that runs across my front yard near the road, and it is especially deep on either side of the driveway. I can’t just drive around it, nor can I just park my car in the busy road to get out and move it out of the way.
But now those asswipes have really gone and done it! This week our trash can was full because we did a lot of cleaning in the yard and started cleaning our shed out. All this trash was in addition to our normal household trash, which is shamefully a lot to begin with. I had to set some of our trash bags out beside the trash can since there was no more room in it. Some of the bags I set on top fell off, I am sure of it. When I got home, my trash can was oddly in a place I could drive around it, and this made me nervous. I knew something had to be wrong. I quickly spotted the ignored trash bags still in my front yard. They emptied the can, set it back exactly where it was found in an attempt to TRICK me, and ignored the other bags which were obviously there to be picked up as well. DAMMIT! Those garbage men need their asses kicked in the worst way! Maybe they are not supposed to get any trash that isn’t specifically in the can, but if so, this is the first time it has EVER, in my four years of living here, been a problem. If the neighbor’s dog or a stray cat had gotten into my trash and strewn it everywhere, I’d have called and complained whether I was in the right or not.
So, my trash can is basically already full again. There will be more, and the can will definitely overflow. The trash will not be picked up if it is not in the can. My neighbor has said I can put any extra trash in her can (I would have done that this week, but she didn’t have her own bin out and there wasn’t time for me to go get it from the back of her house), but I think these twats need a lesson. I am going to stack bags on top of the top bag that will fit in the can. I will duct-tape these bags to the tops of the ones already in the can, and to each other to make sure that they all stay in the can. Since they won’t get bags placed next to the can, let them pick up the garbage can made unwieldy by all the excess bags ignored from this week’s round.
Really…I have had it, and I am not joking. Not at all. It will be all I can do not to put a note on the very top explaining that I had to duct tape all the bags together like that because they ignored them when they were sitting beside the can the previous week.
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Okay. I feel much better now that I have a plan in place to deal with their laziness and smartassery.
Today is going to be a busy one for me! I will blog, read, take a short nap, then get up and go do some shopping! I am mostly ready for my Thursday night road trip, but I need to be sure I have batteries for my camera. I may also pick up some fake eyelashes, since my own are stick straight and you can’t even see them! I know it takes me forever and a day to get ready for anything, but I want to be pretty, too, dammit!
I also think I am going to dye my hair. I absolutely LOVE Ashlee Simpson’s new red color! (scroll down just a bit to see her pics) Don’t get me wrong, she is all kinds of annoying and useless! But snagging Petey Wentz and this hair color are two things she’s done exceptionally well.
Originally published at devilishsouthernbelle.net. You can comment here or there.