’cause it makes a lot of noise? So that don’t know what they are doing and spilling in on the street or throwing cans at cars?
Not sure why it’s supposed to be funny. Recycling always sounds loud and those of us who think it is horrible sounding are usually wrong. That we think it sounds like an accident isn’t funny. And when it *is* too loud and they are tossing are garbage in the street and hitting cars…. that’ not funny either.
If it’s making a lot of noise, that means most of the bin is glass bottles or cans, not paper/cardboard. Most likely bottles, since glass is more likely to break, and is, IME, way more noisy even when it doesn’t.
Which calls their drinking habits into question.
I took it to be lots of glass containers, as breaking glass is one of the signature sounds of a traffic accident, with mass to make the loud, metallic thud inside the truck.
Don’t know why lots of glass would call for, “That’s not good!” unless maybe it’s beer and/or wine bottles.
I just assumed it was a lead-in for the week’s arc.
Time to change to the fancy boxed wine. Problem solved!
@bobpeters – that’s what I meant by ‘calling their drinking habits into question’.
I’m thinking all the glass = drinking comments are on the right track. That was my first thought, too. All the neighbors hearing their bottle-filled bin being emptied are thinking the same thing as well.
Folly – is your characterization of boxed wine as “fancy” meant sarcastically, or has the perception of boxed wine really flipped 180 from about 15 years ago when boxed wine seen as somewhere between Thunderbird and Manischewitz?
I remember hearing the recycle guys laughing out on the sidewalk. That’s REALLY not good.
@ larK – The very first boxed wine that I ever saw was called “Château Arroyo“, which is just a fancy macaronic expression for “House of the Dry Gulch”.
Not at all sarcastic. You can get high(er) quality wine in boxed form now. Black box helped popularize it a few years back, but now there is a lot of selection.
Our old neighbor once told me she hid most of their empty beer bottles among the regular garbage, instead of putting them in the recycling bins, because she didn’t want everybody to know her husband was a high-functioning alcoholic.
(As if everybody didn’t already know)
My FIRST thought was that the garbage truck machine malfunctioned and tossed all the recycles (esp. glass) on the street, thereby making it sound like a car accident.
My community used to require we use clear bags for recycling. I kept finding my neighbor’s recycling in front of my house, and couldn’t figure out why she was doing that, until I realized it was almost all wine and liquor bottles. Make ME look to be the wino, huh lady?
We’ve never seen any indication the Arlo and Janis are heavy drinkers, though, have we?
Gee, I figured it just meant that they had a LOT of recycling.
I always figure neighbors must think we are hoarders as we put out so little garbage and/or recycling.
Arlo means ‘dumping it into the truck’, Janis hears ‘dumping it out on the street’.
It takes me about three weeks most of the time to accumulate enough recyclables to make it worth wheeling the blue bin out to the curb. I have a bin inside for the cans and jars and such, and a box for newspapers. When I empty the inside bin into the big one, it’s often a noisy affair.
Brian in STL – I used to use the little green box we were given for recycling. Over the decades the box was destroyed by the garbagemen dropping it in the street – main street, 4 lanes. I complained and was told that I could pickup a new box – I did, but it was huge and would not fit where the old one was stored. I threw it in the garage and did not use it, I just kept the old one – until they took it with the recycling.
At that time Robert’s mom died and his sister was selling his mom’s house. His parents did not believe in recycling and there was a pristine original box in their garage for same. I switched it with the large one and used that one for a decade or so until it also was completely destroyed and taken away by with the recycling. During this period the township had delivered a green can and we were to put our newspapers in the box and the rest in the can. The can has been lying (other than during Hurricanes Irene and Sandy) between our garage and the fence next to it – unused. (I had planned to bring it back to the recycling place, but my embroidery chapter moved to a new location that was no longer all the way down there (south of us) near the sanitation place. so it lies there.
Now I keep boxes as we empty them. I put the recycling in a box and put it out next to a pile of tied up newspapers. They take it all – including the box. I don’t have to bring anything in and I get around to getting rid of the boxes.
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’cause it makes a lot of noise? So that don’t know what they are doing and spilling in on the street or throwing cans at cars?
Not sure why it’s supposed to be funny. Recycling always sounds loud and those of us who think it is horrible sounding are usually wrong. That we think it sounds like an accident isn’t funny. And when it *is* too loud and they are tossing are garbage in the street and hitting cars…. that’ not funny either.
If it’s making a lot of noise, that means most of the bin is glass bottles or cans, not paper/cardboard. Most likely bottles, since glass is more likely to break, and is, IME, way more noisy even when it doesn’t.
Which calls their drinking habits into question.
I took it to be lots of glass containers, as breaking glass is one of the signature sounds of a traffic accident, with mass to make the loud, metallic thud inside the truck.
Don’t know why lots of glass would call for, “That’s not good!” unless maybe it’s beer and/or wine bottles.
I just assumed it was a lead-in for the week’s arc.
Time to change to the fancy boxed wine. Problem solved!
@bobpeters – that’s what I meant by ‘calling their drinking habits into question’.
I’m thinking all the glass = drinking comments are on the right track. That was my first thought, too. All the neighbors hearing their bottle-filled bin being emptied are thinking the same thing as well.
Folly – is your characterization of boxed wine as “fancy” meant sarcastically, or has the perception of boxed wine really flipped 180 from about 15 years ago when boxed wine seen as somewhere between Thunderbird and Manischewitz?
I remember hearing the recycle guys laughing out on the sidewalk. That’s REALLY not good.
@ larK – The very first boxed wine that I ever saw was called “Château Arroyo“, which is just a fancy macaronic expression for “House of the Dry Gulch”.
Not at all sarcastic. You can get high(er) quality wine in boxed form now. Black box helped popularize it a few years back, but now there is a lot of selection.
https://www.cookinglight.com/entertaining/wine/best-boxed-wines-to-buy
Our old neighbor once told me she hid most of their empty beer bottles among the regular garbage, instead of putting them in the recycling bins, because she didn’t want everybody to know her husband was a high-functioning alcoholic.
(As if everybody didn’t already know)
My FIRST thought was that the garbage truck machine malfunctioned and tossed all the recycles (esp. glass) on the street, thereby making it sound like a car accident.
My community used to require we use clear bags for recycling. I kept finding my neighbor’s recycling in front of my house, and couldn’t figure out why she was doing that, until I realized it was almost all wine and liquor bottles. Make ME look to be the wino, huh lady?
We’ve never seen any indication the Arlo and Janis are heavy drinkers, though, have we?
Gee, I figured it just meant that they had a LOT of recycling.
I always figure neighbors must think we are hoarders as we put out so little garbage and/or recycling.
Arlo means ‘dumping it into the truck’, Janis hears ‘dumping it out on the street’.
It takes me about three weeks most of the time to accumulate enough recyclables to make it worth wheeling the blue bin out to the curb. I have a bin inside for the cans and jars and such, and a box for newspapers. When I empty the inside bin into the big one, it’s often a noisy affair.
Brian in STL – I used to use the little green box we were given for recycling. Over the decades the box was destroyed by the garbagemen dropping it in the street – main street, 4 lanes. I complained and was told that I could pickup a new box – I did, but it was huge and would not fit where the old one was stored. I threw it in the garage and did not use it, I just kept the old one – until they took it with the recycling.
At that time Robert’s mom died and his sister was selling his mom’s house. His parents did not believe in recycling and there was a pristine original box in their garage for same. I switched it with the large one and used that one for a decade or so until it also was completely destroyed and taken away by with the recycling. During this period the township had delivered a green can and we were to put our newspapers in the box and the rest in the can. The can has been lying (other than during Hurricanes Irene and Sandy) between our garage and the fence next to it – unused. (I had planned to bring it back to the recycling place, but my embroidery chapter moved to a new location that was no longer all the way down there (south of us) near the sanitation place. so it lies there.
Now I keep boxes as we empty them. I put the recycling in a box and put it out next to a pile of tied up newspapers. They take it all – including the box. I don’t have to bring anything in and I get around to getting rid of the boxes.