Well, there's another Garbage Night come and gone (Rubbish Night, for our friends in the Old World).
I remember when Garbage Night actually meant something, before all the commercialization. Now, it's just a Rubbermaid holiday.
I remember carrying out the old galvanized Garbage Cans (Dust Bins, for our friends in the UK and Ireland). We'd carry them out, fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, rinse them out on Garbage Day, placing the lids back on, carefully, so the neighborhood rodents couldn't get into them.
The trucks would come around, collect all the contents. Nope, just doesn't mean what it used to. We'd look forward to Garbage Night all week long, now, it's just another day. It's become so meaningless now, we even have two Garbage Nights per week here.
Maybe Co-Mingled Recycling Day will take it's place, probably not, but, it's nice to dream and wax nostalgic for times gone by.
