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Olympia Garbage funny

Submitted by emmettoconnell on Mon, 11/28/2005 - 10:23pm.

For someone who wakes up early enough to watch the garbage guys, this is funny:

We have these cool new trucks in Olympia where there's an articulated arm like on the Space Shuttle and it grabs the cans and hoists it overhead and dumps the contents into the truck. So, the first can gets emptied, the arm goes halfway down, then back up and waits at the top, and I'm thinking some of the linoleum is stuck in the can.

The guy gets out of the truck, climbs up on top of the truck and starts putting stuff back into the can and I'm thinking, "Oh no, what did I do now? No debris allowed? Is it filled with lead or asbestos? Did the metal strips jam the compactor?" -- not likely, I know.

I run upstairs and get on some pants (I've already had a cup of coffee, so I'm thinking ahead) and go out and ask the guy as sweet as I can, "Is there a problem?"

The guy smiles at me and says, "No. No problem, unless you count me forgetting to open the top of the truck as a problem."

I wish Olympia Report had comments, I would comment there. I bet the rest of us have funny garbage stories.

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Funny. I often wonder if the

Submitted by Rick on Mon, 11/28/2005 - 10:42pm.

Funny.

I often wonder if the recycling guy is being judgmental about the quantity (and quality) of the wine bottles in our bin. I wonder if he thinks things like, "Morons -- put the mixed paper in with the newspaper, again."

Anyway.

Emmett -- while we're on the topic of Olympia blogs, I've been slowly implementing your suggestion about hooking up RSS feeds from local blogs, and I've adjusted the aggregator to display the feeds separately. However, I'm finding that most local blogs don't have an RSS. Also, the atom.xml doesn't seem to work with our aggregator. Any suggestions?

You could always get a blogli

Submitted by emmettoconnell on Tue, 11/29/2005 - 9:16am.

You could always get a bloglines account, build a blogroll there and export the java script onto a page in drupal. It's a roundabout way, but it worked for me once. I looked for a drupal module just now that could solve that problem, but I didn't find anything. I wonder why the default aggregator for drupal wouldn't pick up xml?

Put out a full half-rack of b

Submitted by jackson on Tue, 11/29/2005 - 5:45pm.

Put out a full half-rack of beer for the garbage man on the holidays! Tis the season!

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