More People Observations

This morning, as I was taking the kids over to the bus stop so they could head off for school, I noticed one of those things that makes you want to go "Ewwww..."

No less than three people were out cruising the neighborhoods - garbage picking. And this wasn't discrete picking, this was stop the car in the middle of the road so it holds up traffic so that you can go over and rummage through the rubbish. I got stuck behind one lady in a fairly new minivan who stopped on the main road out of our neighborhood, turned on her emergency blinkers, got out and found a broken broomstick handle in someones trash can, opened the back of her van - which was full of other garbage - tossed in the broomstick and then left. I had to sit there through the whole ordeal as there was too much oncoming traffic to go around her, but the most amazing part was the amount of garbage she was hauling around in the back of her van.

Now it's not like I live in some tony neighborhood - I think, think, we're one step above the ghetto. And it's not like these folks were taking anything that might be worth something - like a broken TV or a washing machine.

No, they're taking broken broomsticks and split pieces of PVC pipe. And they're picking through God only knows what to get it. Are things really that bad?

I do have to say that I am now offended that no one went through my garbage. What, I'm not even good enough for the garbage pickers??? This has to be a violation of some right, right?

One word: Ewwwwww.