Comments on: The Garbage Man

By: Jens

Jens — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:54:36 +0000

I live in an apartment. We still create way more trash than we should, although it’s harder to measure since we share a row of cans downstairs. Still, I’m proud that we have managed to create about as much recycling as trash of late. It means alot of tearing apart and sorting but it’s worth it. Why? Because I love the looks I get walking down the hall with one of the community shopping carts overflowing with recycling. I like to imagine that the other residents see the moral superiority of my superior stack of recyclables. I conveniently ignore the fact that the look on their face is not envy but repulsion at the homeless man in dirty sweats and two days of beard walking his belongings down the hallway with scatters of paper floating to the floor behind him. We Americans have a long way to go.

By: Kevin Hayden

Kevin Hayden — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:43:49 +0000

I'd never been inside before. It's a very nice place. Expository wallpaper. Sound drifting into the windows on a somewhat pleasant day. In the distance, there's a TV. Some man is selling something.

"Probably his soul" I said.

Norm looked at me, silently.

The grasshoppers remained oblivious, as they noisily devoured our flesh.

By: Norm

Norm — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:03:54 +0000

Oh my goodness, it’s Kevin, what in the world is he doing here?

By: Kevin Hayden

Kevin Hayden — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:58:15 +0000

Before the simple life begins, one must eliminate his possessions, though. There’ll be an additional charge for that. Unless one finds the Great Solution … the untended dumpster. Nobody has revealed their locations to the Bulldog People.

By: Norm

Norm — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 03:24:08 +0000

I think that’s exactly what the fellow that had the encounter with the garbage man needs, a good kick in the butt to start him on the road to the simple life.

By: Jo Ann

Jo Ann — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:20:03 +0000

I seem to recall seeing a Story of Stuff video on another blog…