Do you mean the lyrics, "Cain't get no satisfaction? That's hilarious!!!Originally Posted by CeciliaW
Do you mean the lyrics, "Cain't get no satisfaction? That's hilarious!!!
Just point, Mrs,-M, and I'll join you. The local Acme (Albertson's, or maybe Chubb Foods today - who knows?) is apparently being run by adolescents and I can barely stand being in the store due to the obnoxious and overly loud music.How about this one, CeciliaW?
(Taking aim at the speakers emitting the music).
I know it, Jemima. I've met the same a few times while shopping privately-owned clothing stores.
People who tell you they want something you posted on Freecycle and then never show up. Or in the case of the first person who asked for it, never emailed or called me back to make arrangements.
I am so over recycling. The rules seem to get more byzantine by the year: shredded paper goes in transparent bags in your recycling bin; shredded paper should be "layered" in your yard waste bin; styrofoam can be taken an hour or so's drive away; plastic bags can be bundled and deposited in your recycle bin; plastic bags should really be taken back to the store and put in a bin there; rules for the periodic neighborhood hazardous/miscellaneous waste seem to change with every scheduled event...So I have piles of used batteries, bins in every room for paper and cardboard, boxes with electronic gear waiting for the next pickup. It feels like a part-time job. Of course I'll carry on--I know I should appreciate that my community has a robust recycling system--and I do--and of course a partial solution is to buy less, but the whole process peeves me. It never ends.
I hear you on this. And it can be taken to extremes.
Friday I got roped into helping clean out a lab that had belonged to a professor who retired. Someone decided that we must recycle all the glass and plastic containers he'd kept samples in. So as we were emptying these jars clouds of pecan shell dust and other crap was floating all in the air. No to mention having to handle the samples of actual pecans - from 1969, no less - that had to be rancid as hell. My sinuses went ballistic that night.
And there's still lots of jars to be emptied.I'm pretty sure I'll have research to be done offsite the next couple of days.
Jane that is not very earth friendly of you.
As I stand and sort and exercise my "awesome compacting ability" (that's DH's subtle dig at my excess poundage) on our household waste, it's kind of my zen moment. I do it mindfully and keep the bad ideas out of my head because really, I know that it has limited utility but there is little I can do about the actions of others. You think that my ghetto neighbors bother to separate green compost products from recyclables from "regular" garbage, let alone pull out #6 plastics from all of the others? Not bloody likely. Hell, I'm happy if they actually get throwaways in a receptacle of any kind, keeping it off of my garden. It's entirely unrealistic to expect them to sort according to any kind of schematic, no matter how "simple." Pigs.
In fairness, pigs recycle food scraps...Jane that is not very earth friendly of you.
As I stand and sort and exercise my "awesome compacting ability" (that's DH's subtle dig at my excess poundage) on our household waste, it's kind of my zen moment. I do it mindfully and keep the bad ideas out of my head because really, I know that it has limited utility but there is little I can do about the actions of others. You think that my ghetto neighbors bother to separate green compost products from recyclables from "regular" garbage, let alone pull out #6 plastics from all of the others? Not bloody likely. Hell, I'm happy if they actually get throwaways in a receptacle of any kind, keeping it off of my garden. It's entirely unrealistic to expect them to sort according to any kind of schematic, no matter how "simple." Pigs.
LOL......yeah....don't give pigs a bad name. haha
I know this will make some of your skins crawl, (that doesn't sound right...haha) but I wish they would make recycling mandatory. I'll bet just a small fraction of people recycle.
I'm pretty compulsive about it.
There's been an interesting response to mandatory composting/recycling in Portland. Last fall they instituted a schedule where they'd only pick up Garbage every two weeks and but would pick up Compost every week. So of course now they're all up in arms about people putting Garbage in the Compost bins every week. Imagine that.
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