I am the garbage man. I bring in garbage by way of cans and boxes and cellophaned cookies. Everything I buy is packaged and re-packaged and overpackaged. Sometimes I buy a big box of something and when I open it up it's pretty much air and a tightly sealed plastic bag with a bit of whatever it was that I wanted inside. Take a package of stomach pills that I bought recently. It wasn't a big bottle. But when I opened it, it had some tiny pills at the bottom and a huge amount of cotton on top. After I took the cotton out, it was about 1/5 full of stomach pills.

After all of this packaging - the garbage - is in the trash can for awhile, it's time to take the garbage out. The route to the garbage can is the same as coming in, only backwards. This time it's pretty much smushed together and it is messy because some food is mixed in with it, plus the juices that remained in the cans dripped out somehow. The food makes it the most messy. It is like the insides of the apple around the core that is cut out, and the avocado peels and pits and the all of the fat that's been cut off of the sirloins or whatever. It's the bad parts of the fruits and veggies that had been cut out... well, wait... I think a lot of that stuff goes down the garbage disposal. But somehow some of it gets into the trash bag. I'm not sure how, but it's there. Then there are the clumps of tissue... used. Well, need I say more? It's pretty bad.

But, the worst is when the other garbage men come early in the morning and make such a racket gathering up the garbage to take it to god knows where. Do they have to make so much noise? Yes, they do. It's their mission in life. I think they take lessons on how to make the most noise with the least amount ot energy. They don't even have to hollar at each other... although they do -- rather loudly... very loudly. Their truck is also very loud with the funny beeping sound when it backs up... with the loud beeping sound when it backs up.

Well, I could write forever about garbage with no one to complain about the length of the text... I'm glad no one ever comes to visit. I'm not at all upset with the notion that "Sunlight has no friends so far" which is what the old Blogster would have put. I need the peace and quiet. Because tomorrow is garbage day.

PS... Isn't garbage man sexist? Shouldn't it be garbage person? ... I am the garbage person...