Rogue Bins Revisited
Yep, it's here again...
Previously in Rogue Bins: Two bins, one black and lidless, one green, have been beside the dual carriageway for months. Complaints have been made. A man in a lorry has visited the scene and inflicted further damage to the black bin, but neither one has been emptied or removed. Now read on… (If you think you can stand the excitement.)
In the aftermath of the lorry man’s visit, I had to avoid the thin stream of Rot Soup that gently leaked its way from the black bin to the grate every time I walked down to the post box. This wasn’t pleasant, but eventually I didn’t really think about it any more - couldn’t really see it, anyway, thanks to the incessant rain.
Then, as I came back down the shortcut from Morrisons one day (which is actually longer, but never mind - at least going that way, I didn’t have to paddle through the Rot Soup Stream), I saw the familiar bins in their now customary places by the dual carriageway.
But, a little way from them, at the end of the shortcut path, was a yellow skip.
So I sidled past it, trying to look into it without seeming to. Like you do. Skips can be quite interesting, you know.
Except this one. It was empty. Harrumph.
Though I noticed, the next time I went up to Morrisons and thanks to a few sidling steps, that the skip had a few cardboard boxes in it. Wow. Be still, my beating heart.
I didn’t go up past it again for a few days. This seemed to encourage it, because the next time I saw it, it was full past the brim. With cardboard boxes and plastic oil canisters and cauliflower greens and god knows what.
What’s more the yellow skip was no longer alone. It had been joined by four red Biffa bins (three with green tops, one with blue) and two white buckets full of broken glass.
Say what you like about this place, you can’t deny that it’s colourful.
But - AMAZINGLY - (*dum-de-dum-dum... Drum roll....)
The black bin had disappeared!
Is the black bin gone forever? Will the green bin soon be gone, too?
And what about its colourful compatriots? Are they permanent fixtures, or is this the beginning of the end?
I have no idea, yet. But I’ll let you know, in the next edition of: Foo’s Bin News! (Judging by past progress, though, it may be Some Time Later.)
Coming soon: Carriageway news. Old news, but this beggar can’t be a chooser.
Previously in Rogue Bins: Two bins, one black and lidless, one green, have been beside the dual carriageway for months. Complaints have been made. A man in a lorry has visited the scene and inflicted further damage to the black bin, but neither one has been emptied or removed. Now read on… (If you think you can stand the excitement.)
In the aftermath of the lorry man’s visit, I had to avoid the thin stream of Rot Soup that gently leaked its way from the black bin to the grate every time I walked down to the post box. This wasn’t pleasant, but eventually I didn’t really think about it any more - couldn’t really see it, anyway, thanks to the incessant rain.
Then, as I came back down the shortcut from Morrisons one day (which is actually longer, but never mind - at least going that way, I didn’t have to paddle through the Rot Soup Stream), I saw the familiar bins in their now customary places by the dual carriageway.
But, a little way from them, at the end of the shortcut path, was a yellow skip.
So I sidled past it, trying to look into it without seeming to. Like you do. Skips can be quite interesting, you know.
Except this one. It was empty. Harrumph.
Though I noticed, the next time I went up to Morrisons and thanks to a few sidling steps, that the skip had a few cardboard boxes in it. Wow. Be still, my beating heart.
I didn’t go up past it again for a few days. This seemed to encourage it, because the next time I saw it, it was full past the brim. With cardboard boxes and plastic oil canisters and cauliflower greens and god knows what.
What’s more the yellow skip was no longer alone. It had been joined by four red Biffa bins (three with green tops, one with blue) and two white buckets full of broken glass.
Say what you like about this place, you can’t deny that it’s colourful.
But - AMAZINGLY - (*dum-de-dum-dum... Drum roll....)
The black bin had disappeared!
Is the black bin gone forever? Will the green bin soon be gone, too?
And what about its colourful compatriots? Are they permanent fixtures, or is this the beginning of the end?
I have no idea, yet. But I’ll let you know, in the next edition of: Foo’s Bin News! (Judging by past progress, though, it may be Some Time Later.)
Coming soon: Carriageway news. Old news, but this beggar can’t be a chooser.