Trash - Always Ask What Is Covered In The Bill.

It so nice to have terrific neighbors.  On both sides of the house, the neighbors are super nice and have been great about answering my silly questions about the neighborhood and where to find things.  They also have both offered to allow me to put my food type trash out with their trash pickup pile every week so I don’t have to start up trash service for the house.  So for a couple of months now, I have been going out late at night and putting out a bag of trash with each of the neighbors every week before trash pickup day.

The big stuff that the trash truck won’t take or that is harder to hide in the neighbors cans has been piled into the garage.  And now there is a large pile of stuff like all of the toilets, carpet, tree limbs and a bathtub that needs to go to the dump.

My small car is just not going to fit a bathtub in the back, much less everything else.  Next best thing is a rental truck.  Rented a small enclosed moving truck from the local lot and brought it home.  Backed it up the driveway and starting loading the thing.  I didn’t think there was enough junk to fill the truck, but it was full to the top.  Took me all night, but it was loaded up and ready go.

About half way through filling the truck, one of my neighbors came over to say hi.  We were chatting for a little and then he said, “you know, it just dawned on me since your loading all this junk onto the truck, your water bill also covers trash pickup service….”.

Apparently, since the water bill was going to my primary residence,  I never saw the paperwork that stated that trash service was included in the water bill.  All this time I was sneaking out late at night to dump small bags of trash when I could have just been putting it out to the curb.

Needless to say, we both had a big belly laugh over that one.  A dump run would still need to be done for the large items, but the truck would have been a lot lighter.  Moral of the story, always ask what is covered in the bill.

The next morning I drove the truck out to the dump and dumped all of those large items. It only took about an hour to unload, but at least it was done.