[The included pictures were taken today, not last night]
So what's neat about our town is that older neighborhoods are not cleared/demolished to make way for tract housing and subdivisions. We happen to rent a cottage in one of the oldest neighborhoods in town, and we love it.
Our street/neighborhood is quiet, crime free, friendly and clean. Or used to be. Last night I stepped out onto our back deck to grab a smoke and mess around with our new phone. It was about 8:45 PM, so it wasn't quite dark yet. Our house is situated on a rather steep hill, so you can see over the top of our back yard fence from the deck.
When I looked over the fence, I noticed a car was sitting across the street in front of a recently vacant house [this house is also directly across from
another vacant house which is directly behind us]. I figured that they were having car trouble, or lost, which isn't unusual in our neck of the woods, so I lit up my smoke and went back to the phone.
Well, I heard the car pull away, and when I looked back up, there was a
shit ton of trash in its place:
As well as across the street from that corner along the side of the empty house behind our own:
I don’t know if this happens in your neck of the woods, but people dump like crazy up here. I can’t get used to it because it sure as fuck didn’t happen back in California where I grew up and the Pacific Northwest is god damned gorgeous, so I can’t wrap my head around why these fucking inbred yokels feel the need to dump their shit all over the place [seriously, my mom lives out in the woods and people are perpetually dumping fridges and washers by her house].
Anyway, I was/am fucking pissed, so I wrote a note and nailed it to one of the three tires they left on the side of the road:
Why? Because they left their shit on a corner that’s in between two vacant houses, so they’re obviously from the neighborhood. They knew nobody was going to have a direct line of sight on them. And more importantly, I pay money to live in this neighborhood, and even though it’s one of the oldest left in town, it’s nice, quiet, and crime free. And it’s usually nice to look at. Now my view from my back porch and kitchen window is full of garbage. Fuck that.
Also, when I thought back on the car, it looked familiar. Of course my line about seeing their faces and getting their plates is absolute bullshit, but I can definitely remember what kind of car it was down to the most mundane detail, and if I
do see their car again, I will be making good on that promise.
This shit just irks me. I mean what the fuck? You have all this shit laying around your house/property, and instead of calling the refuse disposal guys, who will pick it up for next to nothing if not nothing, you formulate a plan, take the time to load it into your shit box, and then dump it in
my fucking neighborhood? Come on.
So does crap like this go on for you guys? Like I said, I've never seen dumping like this in the multiple parts of California I've lived in, but it's a serious problem up here. Which, again, considering the scenery, is mind boggling.
EDIT: And before any of you clever little sillies point it out, I am aware of the irony of posting a cunty note about dumping/littering...With what is essentially more litter.
