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Taking out the trash 

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As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today

What is something you dislike doing, even though it’s pretty easy and doesn’t take too much time?

One, of many, things that I dislike doing, even though it doesn’t take much time is taking out the trash.

It’s not even like my trash really smells very much. And even if it did, I don’t have much of a sense of smell to begin with. No I just hate taking out the trash because I hate the idea of collecting it and enrolling the recycling and garbage carts down to the end of my driveway.

I do not discriminate and my hatred of trash. I don’t care if it’s rotten food, musty old papers, or completely non-recyclable refuse that were tossing. I hate dealing with trash in all of its forms.

I’m being honest, I think my real discuss were taking the garbage stems from my job and both restaurants in retail. When you work in a relatively high value business, you see the amount of trash that is thrown out on a daily basis. Then, when you start to think that there’s hundreds, if not, thousands of other businesses like that one around the world, and not even factoring in the amount of garbage that all of us throw away in our daily lives as well, it’s pretty overwhelming. That degree of imagination makes a movie like Wall-E come across as a cautionary tale from the future.

Yes, there’s something fulfilling about getting rid of things that I no longer need, but I just despise the fact that I have to collect it and take it down to the end of my driveway. It’s not that I’m lazy. But just because it feels like it’s a waste of time. the funniest part is it might take me maybe 10 minutes to get all of the recycling and trash together every week. I just don’t like doing it.

Speaking of which, I noticed lately that I have far more recycling materials going to the end of my driveway every week then I have regular garbage. I’d like to think that’s something about me “ decreasing my carbon footprint”. But the fact of the matter is, I know it’s because I eat more takeout than I have at any other time in my life.

But I’m trying to do something about that. This weekend, kid two comes over and I’m going to make more of a conscious effort to actually eat at home one, if not both, nights that he’s over.

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