I took this picture one morning a few days ago. I was angry. My trailer trash neighbors had thrown a mattress away by putting it in the street near their fence. It’s not the first time they've done something like this. If it’s not a mattress then it is yard waste or furniture. I took a picture so I could call the city and complain. The city would remove it eventually. It’s not like my neighbors understand the issue either. The last time I talked to them about a bunch of unbundled tree limbs that stayed in the same spot for three weeks, they said, “What I am supposed to do?” There assumption was that somebody would pick it up for them.
Later that same day, near 9:00 pm, as I left to buy gas I noticed. a family had pulled up next to the curb and was trying to muscle the mattress up to the roof of their old van. I helped load it and gave them some rope to help secure it. A young girl watched from the sidewalk. She asked if the bed was for her. Her dad said, “Yes honey, tonight you sleep in a real bed.”
I can remember being that poor.
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ou824 · 771 weeks ago
did you listen to the other one?
Mojoey 107p · 771 weeks ago
ou824 · 771 weeks ago
do you honestly believe that there is nothing out there that created you or the world?
Mojoey 107p · 771 weeks ago
I believe in nothing metaphysical. Nothing at all. No Gods, no gods, and not creator either. There is no proof for any of it.
1minionsopinion 21p · 771 weeks ago
The fellow I'm seeing (although not as often as I'd like) has a job with an apartment cleaning company and while much of their work is of the landscaping variety, he often tells of stuff he's seen left behind by tenants after evictions or even just hurried moves. For every $50 worth of change he collects, he finds a big screen TV or decent stereo or quality furniture they just didn't want to have to fuss with when changing addresses. Most of it winds up sitting in storage for a while in case the original owners do want it at some point. But talk about a waste of money for every thing left and never claimed. And yeah, we probably have a lot of families in this city who are in a similar cash situation to this one, too.