Thankyou....

[YoungPUP]

To those of you who give your Garbage man the gift of alcohol for Christmas!  Still 14 days till Christmas, and I'm already up 2 cases of beer, a bottle of Jack, 2 jars of homebrew, and a bottle of Makers Mark.  Nothing says thanks for another good year of service, like giving me the ability to tolerate my inlaws during the holidays!  Merry Christmas!

[tonyfan70]

Good deal!

You must not be a picky bastard like my grabage man. He tends to leave the cans half full, or empties them totally with half the garbage in my driveway. Seems to pick and choose what to take.

Oddly enough, always admired the garbage men in a way....a pretty thankless job that absolutely needs to be done. Without you guys we'd be Calcutta or something nasty. I wanted to be one back after high school until a friend who was told me what it's like to lift a bag and have it bust open dumping maggots all over you and into your clothes...in summer. The desire kinda faded after that.

[cookiedough]

Good deal!

You must not be a picky bastard like my grabage man. He tends to leave the cans half full, or empties them totally with half the garbage in my driveway. Seems to pick and choose what to take.

Oddly enough, always admired the garbage men in a way....a pretty thankless job that absolutely needs to be done. Without you guys we'd be Calcutta or something nasty. I wanted to be one back after high school until a friend who was told me what it's like to lift a bag and have it bust open dumping maggots all over you and into your clothes...in summer. The desire kinda faded after that.

I hear yah on the maggots part.  I forgot to put the garbage out in the summer heat one week and let it sit for like 2 months or so and opened the lid, WOWZEE - MAKES GALORE 1,000'S OF THEM stunck so bad I darn near puked.  On the bright side, I could've used some for fishing bait????

We have garbage pickup here in our small town, but is like 2 bucks per sticker and have to supply our own trash bag what a ripoff, but could be worse I guess.  Recyclables they do not pick up instead have to drive downtown to recyling center once per week or two.  Could be worse, next they might ban burning in burning barrels like so many yuppee communities around us already do not allow and then would for sure have to buy several 2.00 stickers per week for all the trash which can be burned now.

[da prez]

  Dem not maggots , it's rice that is very lively. It will walk to the cooking pot.
  I used to wrench on sanitation trucks ( as they were called) . Hot days lively rice.

           HAD A FEW ROWN THE SHIRT!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                            da prez

[saddlesore]

   I thought the term was "SANITATION ENGINEER" ?
I have to haul my own. I throw it in the shed until I have enough to make the trip worth while or when the stink dictates it.

[old2soon]

I get to put out 2 cans every monday. Part of my monthly city bill. If i have extra bags i have to have the orange stickers on the extra bags that the city sells fer a Dollar apiece. Did the garbage pickup as a part time in Texas. Oce was enough. RIDE SAFE.

[YoungPUP]

Gotta love the wriggly rice.  As for the city tags there always a way around them ($) The guy that trained me said to treat all of your customers the way you would want the garbage man to treat your own parents. ( funny now because I'm my parents garbage man...)  Not that hard to keep the customers happy though.  Stuff the lids in the cans on windy days, run the cans up to the house for the elderly and handicapped, and try to keep track of who's working midnites, so you can grab their trash off of the side of the house if they're not home yet.

[saddlesore]

Gotta love the wriggly rice. As for the city tags there always a way around them ($) The guy that trained me said to treat all of your customers the way you would want the garbage man to treat your own parents. ( funny now because I'm my parents garbage man...)  Not that hard to keep the customers happy though.  Stuff the lids in the cans on windy days, run the cans up to the house for the elderly and handicapped, and try to keep track of who's working midnites, so you can grab their trash off of the side of the house if they're not home yet.

No wonder you get a lot of "thank yous". You sound like a very considerate collector.

[fon1961]

Sounds like you had a good mentor and like you do a great job. Hope your Christmas perks continue to accumulate.

[north-aurora]

We tip our garbage and mail man well for Christmas. Pays off in a year of continued great service. I've never had a problem like a can not being picked up if I forgot to put a sticker on it, like others in the neighborhood have...

[RudyF6]

We tip our garbage and mail man well for Christmas. Pays off in a year of continued great service.

We take care of ours year-round. If we're home when they come, they get cold pop or water in summer, coffee in winter, cash for Christmas. The rules kinda' get overlooked when I have extra junk on occasion! 

[steve 3054]

RudyF6 +1.....I do the same although here in FL. no need for coffee on cold mornings...I treat the fellows just as I would want to be treated, and when I am breaking the trash rules there is a $20 bill in my hand at the same time...