-clean up days-

twice a year my lovely town of north kato has a fancy little thing called clean up days. what are these clean up days?...well reader, clean up days are times where the city allows us to throw just about anything out by the curb and they come around, pick it up and properly dispose of it. so for a few days the town looks like a garbage dump. everyone throws everything out by the curb. its great though because it allows you to clean out your basement, your garage, etc and you dont have to worry about what youre going to do with everything.

the downside to clean up days?..after all the junk has been put out on the curb and before theyve come around to pick it all up, people come from all over to go through and take other peoples stuff. it just becomes a city wide yard sale and everything is free! honestly at times its just a parade of traffic driving slowly by your house to see if any of your junk is worth taking. i hate it. its always annoyed me. maybe it shouldnt annoy me, but it does. saturday i spent part of the day getting stuff out to the curb...only to come outside a little later to find that people had dug through my stuff and left it laying in the road and on my sidewalk. so i reorganized it all again. only to find sunday morning that some of it was again in the road and on the sidewalk. yesterday i came home from work to find a couple women looking at one of the yard toys i had thrown out. why did i throw it out?...because it was cracked and could no longer safely support the weight of a child on it. so...its garbage. these 2 women are commenting on how much their daughters would love a yard toy like that...than they noticed the crack. "its cracked...its no good", one of them said...than get this, they both looked at me like they were mad about it and said "well thats a shame". its frickin garbage ladies. thats why im throwing it out. that event brought my annoyance up a little more . but heres what peaked it...last night at about 3 am i woke up to the sound of a vehicle idling loudly and some loud crashing noises. i looked out my window to see what was going on...someone in a van was driving slowly down the road going through everyones stuff and throwing some of it in the back of their van. they had stopped outside of my house and were just sitting there talking. all this at about 3 am.

anyways, today the city came around and picked everything up. the town is clean, the parade of treasure seekers is over and 3 am should be quiet. and for that i am happy. and a little tired.