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Who’s the asshole that decided that the garbage man has to come through my street every morning at 7 AM? Really? 7 AM? This literally happens every weekday morning. I don’t see how anything can be accomplished at 7 AM that can’t be done at, say, 9 AM. It’s only a two hour difference which isn’t much but it would mean the world to me.

I have been offered several scenarios that would necessitate my daily 7 AM wake up call and all of them can be easily refuted. One is that it’s done early as to avoid traffic. Bullshit. Traffic in LA begins to pick up at around 7:30, so they’d have to start collecting at like 2 or 3 AM in order to get any real work done. And besides, I see garbage trucks all over the city at all normal business hours so there’s really no reason for my 7 AM daily wakeup.

That brings me to the next suggested scenario: it’s just part of their route. Fuck that. It’s not rocket science to reverse a route at least a couple of days out of the week. And I don’t care if it costs them more to run a reverse route. I/we/you/me pay for that shit. It’s not like the waste disposal people are scrounging around for cash. Anybody who took a seventh grade social studies class knows that garbage men are well paid for their job.

Third suggested scenario: “It’s in their contract.” I don’t even know what the hell that is supposed to mean.

Sorry, I’ll shut up. I’m tired.

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