Death by Sanitation Engineer

[billroper]

Because Thursday was Thanksgiving, our normal garbage pickup was postponed from Friday until Saturday. Since we ran out of here at high speed last Thursday, we didn't get to dump most of the garbage, although I did put out the boxes from the baby furniture (which our neighbor found highly suspicious :) ). So we figured to get rid of the rest of the boxes from things like the car seat and the ton of recycling. And then I decided to make space in the basement by flattening and disposing of the many boxes of dubious value that we'd collected down there. (Some boxes were worth saving for shipping CDs in, but I needed to separate the sheep from the goats.) I also threw out the broken VCR, the broken cassette deck, the old chandelier...

You start to picture a largish mound of trash.

Our neighbors, however, are redoing their family room. So they have dumped the torn up carpet, all of the family room furniture, plus the usual amount of trash belonging to a family of four.

So all of this is there on a day when our resident sanitation engineers really just want to get things picked up and get out of here.

I think we're in trouble...

Comments

"Oh? I though you were moving somewhere!"

[robin-june.livejournal.com]

That's okay; the regular passersby will just think both households are moving.

Then when you don't they'll just be confused.

Fox Run Farms, the manor house on the other side of our church from my 1-room-schoolhouse-now 2-bedroom-postage-stamp, went on the market in 2002 with an initial asking price of 3/4's of a million dollars. For several years, we would wonder if the intermittant huge piles on Trash day meant a sale had been made. However, the only thing that would change would be the realtor whose sign graced the driveway. (This, in the hottest housing market ever seen in central Ohio.) Finally in 2005, our church's synod's extension fund bought it in trust for our church, and paid somewhat less. We currently rent it to our new associate pastor. his wife and 3 boys.

Why did our Church Extension Fund pony up the dough to buy it for St John's? Well the rumor going around at the time was that the Mormons were planning on buying up the ~5 parcels between us and the corner, and putting in a Tabernacle. And if you know anything about Missouri Synod Lutherans you'll recognize that Them's Fightin' Words!!!

Re: "Oh? I though you were moving somewhere!"

[bwittig.livejournal.com]

Yep, nothin' gets MSL moving than...

The Mormon Tabernacle Acquire.

(Kudos to whoever thought up that fundraising angle. )