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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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 Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:24 am Post subject: trash woes |
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I really like my little neighborhood, a quaint assortment of older houses & villas, narrow quiet streets. Until last week everyone put their garbage out at the corner & it was a bit unsightly but it would all get cleaned away nicely a couple times a week.
One morning last week I left my little bag of trash in a regulation bag at the regular spot. We're talking 20 or 30 families used this spot. No one else's was there but I didnt give it a thought.
Well. That same evening some woman comes banging on my door & gives me an earful about how I cant put my trash there anymore (she'd evidently gone through the bag to identify me). Best I could reason with her was I'd have to lug it an extra block or two in future. Um, okay.
Now it turns out the entire neighborhood has been banned from putting out trash! We're required to hand it directly to the garbage truck guys who will pass twice a week at a time when I'm away at work.
I learned this from a kindly neighbor who worried I would be out of the loop & subject to big fines. She had her young daughter labor over a note in english & taped it to my door. Her family is in the same boat & has had to arrange for someone to come meet the garbage truck. WTF?
Upshot -- she's invited me to leave my trash by her gate on wednesday or sunday nights, under cover of darkness, to take advantage of her family's arrangement. I'm grateful to her.
But I'm guessing everyone is hugely inconvenienced. There was a major heated argument in the street outside my window last sunday morning with all the neighbors vs the busybody woman who first came to my door, who seems to have won. There are official banners up now prohibiting trash.
What would you do? |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:31 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe they want everyone to return to the good old days of burnin' it? |
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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: Re: trash woes |
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| schwa wrote: |
I really like my little neighborhood, a quaint assortment of older houses & villas, narrow quiet streets. Until last week everyone put their garbage out at the corner & it was a bit unsightly but it would all get cleaned away nicely a couple times a week.
One morning last week I left my little bag of trash in a regulation bag at the regular spot. We're talking 20 or 30 families used this spot. No one else's was there but I didnt give it a thought.
Well. That same evening some woman comes banging on my door & gives me an earful about how I cant put my trash there anymore (she'd evidently gone through the bag to identify me). Best I could reason with her was I'd have to lug it an extra block or two in future. Um, okay.
Now it turns out the entire neighborhood has been banned from putting out trash! We're required to hand it directly to the garbage truck guys who will pass twice a week at a time when I'm away at work.
I learned this from a kindly neighbor who worried I would be out of the loop & subject to big fines. She had her young daughter labor over a note in english & taped it to my door. Her family is in the same boat & has had to arrange for someone to come meet the garbage truck. WTF?
Upshot -- she's invited me to leave my trash by her gate on wednesday or sunday nights, under cover of darkness, to take advantage of her family's arrangement. I'm grateful to her.
But I'm guessing everyone is hugely inconvenienced. There was a major heated argument in the street outside my window last sunday morning with all the neighbors vs the busybody woman who first came to my door, who seems to have won. There are official banners up now prohibiting trash.
What would you do? |
I'd talk to my boss or hire some neighbor's kid to take it there for me (leave it outside my door and for a couple of chun won he could hand it to the garbage people for me). It wouldn't be that expensive, maybe 10,000 won a month max. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 3:59 am Post subject: |
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Kids are all at school at that time. The boss is the school district office & its not really their concern.
What gets me is the sudden & arbitrary banning of a reasonable & necessary procedure & replacing it with .. nothing! |
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denverdeath
Joined: 21 May 2005
Location: Boo-sahn
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| Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 4:01 am Post subject: Re: trash woes |
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| TheUrbanMyth wrote: |
| schwa wrote: |
I really like my little neighborhood, a quaint assortment of older houses & villas, narrow quiet streets. Until last week everyone put their garbage out at the corner & it was a bit unsightly but it would all get cleaned away nicely a couple times a week.
One morning last week I left my little bag of trash in a regulation bag at the regular spot. We're talking 20 or 30 families used this spot. No one else's was there but I didnt give it a thought.
Well. That same evening some woman comes banging on my door & gives me an earful about how I cant put my trash there anymore (she'd evidently gone through the bag to identify me). Best I could reason with her was I'd have to lug it an extra block or two in future. Um, okay.
Now it turns out the entire neighborhood has been banned from putting out trash! We're required to hand it directly to the garbage truck guys who will pass twice a week at a time when I'm away at work.
I learned this from a kindly neighbor who worried I would be out of the loop & subject to big fines. She had her young daughter labor over a note in english & taped it to my door. Her family is in the same boat & has had to arrange for someone to come meet the garbage truck. WTF?
Upshot -- she's invited me to leave my trash by her gate on wednesday or sunday nights, under cover of darkness, to take advantage of her family's arrangement. I'm grateful to her.
But I'm guessing everyone is hugely inconvenienced. There was a major heated argument in the street outside my window last sunday morning with all the neighbors vs the busybody woman who first came to my door, who seems to have won. There are official banners up now prohibiting trash.
What would you do? |
I'd talk to my boss or hire some neighbor's kid to take it there for me (leave it outside my door and for a couple of chun won he could hand it to the garbage people for me). It wouldn't be that expensive, maybe 10,000 won a month max. |
Doesn't he have to pay for the garbage bags in the first place?
Burn it. That's your best sol'n. Or, maybe you might want to dump it in a nearby river on the way to work.
Seems like a nice convenient plan for the stay-at-home moms. Almost like those convenient community heating plans that used to be common in 주공 apartments: "What?!? You want to use hot water at a time other than 7am or 6pm? Sorry, that's when all the Koreans use it; you'll have to too. What?!? You don't get home until ten pm? Sorry, can't help you. Anyway, it's not healthy to eat so late. What?!? You didn't have the heat blasting for the last six months like all the Koreans? What?!? You don't think you have to pay one-tenth of the total floor heating cost? Sorry, there are ten tenants on this floor. You are one of them. You must pay." |
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