When you start messing with people's garbage, folks can get pretty riled up. Especially if you try telling people to sort out the recyclables when all they want is for the trash to go away and disappear.
In my locality, the new trash bins everybody was required to replace their old cans with were, for whatever reason, equipped with microchips. This, too, alarmed the libertarians and conspiracy theorists. http://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2010/05/trashy-racine-post-cartoon.html
BTW, if the can has wheels, it seems perfectly natural to call it a cart.
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When you start messing with people's garbage, folks can get pretty riled up. Especially if you try telling people to sort out the recyclables when all they want is for the trash to go away and disappear.
ReplyDeleteIn my locality, the new trash bins everybody was required to replace their old cans with were, for whatever reason, equipped with microchips. This, too, alarmed the libertarians and conspiracy theorists. http://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2010/05/trashy-racine-post-cartoon.html
BTW, if the can has wheels, it seems perfectly natural to call it a cart.