Sunday afternoon, we had a downpour before I went to town. I'd checked the forecast, which called for temps in the low 80s, and perhaps some rain around 8:00 p.m. at a 60 percent chance. The rest of the day, the likelihood of precipitation was in the teens. Well. I was quite shocked to hear rain around 2:00, just before I got ready for town. Hick came home from his Storage Unit Store, and said there had been marble-size hail, and we were currently under a severe thunderstorm warning.
Huh. As if THAT was enough to keep me from town!
While I was changing, the wind started up, and I heard the rain pelting the side of the house, despite the overhang of the porch. Still, I was determined to go to town. By the time I left, the skies, had lightened, and the rain was a sprinkle.
Three miles from home, where the county blacktop road abuts the county lettered highway... I spied an unusual sight. Hick had made no mention of it when he got home 30 minutes earlier. I couldn't get a photo from that angle, but I got one on the way back home.
This is right off the well-traveled county lettered highway. You can see it passing by. Somebody pulled over there onto our blacktop county road, and dumped that old TV.
No. They were NOT being kind, offering a TV for free. If you want to do that, you set it at the end of your driveway. They were deliberately dumping trash on our rural road, rather than spending a couple bucks to dispose of it properly at the county landfill.
Heh, heh. They probably spent more in gas to drive it out of town than they would have spent to drop it off at the landfill.
People are such rumpus orifices.
What they need is a stern talking-to from Seinfeld's Rebecca DeMornay character. Like when she declared the homeless didn't want Elaine's muffin stumps, and said she might as well drop off chicken skins and lobster shells. Or perhaps an outdated TV in a rainstorm...
There might be room for it in Mrs. C's storage unit...I mean if it's free.
ReplyDeleteOh, it's FREE, baby! If I had an extra-large towel to hide it from other drivers-by, I'd save it for you. Today it was laying down. I guess some ne'er-do-well (not quite as bad as the one who dumped it) knocked it over with a truck.
DeleteHick took a picture, and put it on his Facebook. Not seeking the perpetrator, nor trying to sucker somebody else into taking it... but to once again emphasize that we don't want people dumping stuff on our roads. I hope chicken skins and lobster shells aren't next.
It wouldn't be any good anyway after getting rained and hailed on. Seems an odd place to dump something though.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it was no good BEFORE it got rained on. Otherwise, the owners would have sold it, or given it away. This is exactly the kind of place these rumpus orifices dump things. On a country road, few witnesses and a quick getaway.
DeleteOur town dump, called "Fort Grumpy" and they are, accepts all such old useless electronics without charge. Cheaper than having to clear them from a highway.
ReplyDeleteI heard a rumor that in Pittsburgh, they just burn them in the back of a trash truck!
DeleteCorrection, "recycle station" not town dump.
ReplyDeleteThe woke version is not as fun. A 'Meancycle Station' doesn't have the same ring as 'Fort Grumpy.'
DeleteThere is an abandoned trailer on the road coming up the mountain to our place. It looks like people have been dumping unwanted stuff there. There are some cinder blocks I have tried to convince HeWho to rescue, but he won't. There is a light on every night in the trailer. I can't imagine anyone actually living there, but someone is paying the power bill.
ReplyDeleteDo you hear dueling banjos when you drive by? I would be careful. Those cinder blocks might be a TRAP! Luring in victims to fatten up in a hole in the ground, rubbing lotion on their skin to become material for a skin suit!
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