draggonlaady

I piss people off. Must be a particular talent of mine.

I came to work early for an emergency, so I decided to do some grunt labor while I was here. Thus, I was hauling recycle to the bins at approximately 6:30 AM. While I was there, a bloke pulls in and starts also putting things in the bins - except that what he's putting in them is not recycled from these bins. AS IS CLEARLY LABELED ON ALL THE BINS.

"Sir?"
"Yeah?"
"They don't accept that type of plastic here - pop bottles and type 1. It just ends up in the dump when somebody at the waste management center has to sort it out."
"Why is that?"
"I don't really know - my guess would be transport costs to Spokane County for processing. But all they take here is milk jugs, as the labels say."
"Well, I'm sure glad I don't need you to be my mother."
"Oookay. I'm also glad I'm not your mother - I'd like to think a child I raised could follow such clearly posted instructions."

He got back in his car at this point and drove around the bin, I assumed to leave. Then he stopped and hung his head out his door for what I'm sure seemed like a witty parting comment...

"Well, at least I'm willing to recycle!"
"And that's good - but putting non-recyclable items in the bins isn't recycling, it's just filling the bins up so people can't put actual recyclables in them."

At which he slammed his door shut and drove off.