Comments on: You’re saying YOU have more than an eighth-grade education?

By: Allison Wonderland

Allison Wonderland — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:36:09 +0000

I can think of a few good applications as well. I think I’ll have to borrow it from you.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 23:58:42 +0000

Not exactly passive, but funny lol

By: spike

spike — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:23:45 +0000

Stupid, lazy, clueless, selfish, inconsiderate trolls are everywhere, throughout the world.

By: notolaf

notolaf — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:15:45 +0000

Not unusual in my Arizona neighborhood, either. And heck, when we lived in the sticks back east, only a social neanderthal would have put usable items INSIDE the dumpster.

By: L

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:56:49 +0000

My school sucked. I flunked 9th grade and dropped out in 10th grade due to social anxiety. Nobody noticed. That was in, like, 2006. (Also, my high school was 7-12.)

By: Poltergeist

Poltergeist — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:27:18 +0000

Public area = right next to the dumpsters, not blocking anybody’s access anything (cars, pathways, etc). The dumpster area is surrounded by a fence. The furniture was, in fact, picked up.

I know it must be fun to judge others and pretend you’re a martyr, but believe me, you’re not.

By: Mr. Fricasee

Mr. Fricasee — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:52:15 +0000

With very few exceptions, misspellings are generally only partly wrong.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:35:44 +0000

So Poltergeist, you think it’s OK to push your problems onto others rather than take responsibility for them yourself?

I know what it’s like to be broke, where an unexpected $20 expense is a catastrophe. I would never in my wildest dreams think that dumping my trash in a public area, where it won’t be picked up is acceptable.

By: Zorin

Zorin — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:29:23 +0000

Another vote for “someone else might be able to use it”. In our neighborhood we frequently leave large unwanted furniture on the curb. Often it is gone within hours as someone sees it and decides they can make use of it.

I’d rather do this than just take it to the dump; what’s the sense in putting more stuff in a landfill when someone can keep using it? This is recycling at its absolute best.

By: Tatterdemalion

Tatterdemalion — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 22:21:20 +0000

Yep. My city too… the “FREE” notice typically helps things depart in a hurry.

By: Jessi

Jessi — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:45:14 +0000

Maybe they left it there in case someone else might want to take it. I see furniture sitting outside a lot around here, college town, and it usually gets picked up by students who want it. I only saw the one spelling mistake, some common grammar mistakes, though.

By: Amy in Toronto

Amy in Toronto — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:16:48 +0000

I’ve lived in apartment buildings in Toronto for most of my adult life and I’m frankly surprised that this piece of furniture didn’t get swiped almost immediately. I once left a damaged motorcycle helmet in the area next to our dumpster (with a note saying that the helmet was no longer safe since it had been in an accident) and someone still took it.

There’s no excuse for leaving it for days at a time. Toronto is part of Freecycle, where there is always SOMEONE who wants your s@#! so long as it’s free.

By: Chris Miller

Chris Miller — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:52:24 +0000

That’s actually the accepted way to get rid of still usable furniture in my city – put it on the footpath, and someone who wants it will take it. The only problem is if it rains before someone does, unfortunately. (Though not so bad for wood or metal.) I don’t think they do it in the high income areas but in the east it’s *really* not unusual to see furniture sitting by the street.

By: Poltergeist

Poltergeist — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:31:26 +0000

How common of an occurrence do you think it would be to have a bunch of tenants getting rid of so many large pieces of furniture at the same time that they would clog up the parking lot? That has never happened anywhere I’ve lived.

Point is, in the rare cases that I need to dispose of large pieces of furniture, I don’t have much of a choice but to leave it by the dumpster – you know, the place where every other unwanted item is disposed of. As long as it isn’t blocking any cars or passageways, why should any of my neighbors give a hoot?