Monday, November 17, 2008

Taking out the Trash

I don't know if anybody outside of Woonsocket realizes this, but there's a new way of doing things in this town when it comes to taking out the trash.

Yes, there's another way.

It's called WM (presumably Waste Management), and if you don't know about it, it's because you live in a 4-family house like I do.

To summarize, WM gives you a couple barrels to seperate your recyclables, trash and dirty magazines. Every week they come by and pick them up.

Seems reasonable and simple to understand, no?

Well, there's something else to this equation I don't agree with, but learned today. A robotic arm is attached to near the driver's side, picks up the barrel and tosses it over the top, removing your old, dirty underwear.

This robotic arm is taking away our shitty jobs, and one thing is for sure, we need our shitty jobs. Not only does it take away the job of the man who hangs from the side of the truck, jumps out, tosses your garbage, and haphazardly leaves your empty barrel in the street, but becuase of the amount of time saved, the driver is losing hours.

That's two shitty jobs being replaced and reduced by R2D2.

Across the country shitty jobs like this are being thrown away by self-checkout lanes in your grocery store and robotic arms. If there's one thing I know, we need our shitty jobs.

And Joe Six Pack sure could've used Nalin' Palin to keep 'em.

Up for Debate:
If an atheistic illiterate ran out of toilet paper and there was only the Bible and the Dictionary in front of him/her, which would he use as toilet paper?

Other meaningless stuff that people enjoy more than everything else here:
1. Santa Clause is real.
2. There's an automatic air freshener in my kitchen that sprays constantly, yet I've never smelled it.
3. Another Bill's kicker has gone wide-right.
4. Drinking more doesn't keep you from being more aggrivated.
5. Aestetically, collared shirts do more for women than zippers, even though zippers took more work to assemble probably and are way more convenient.

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