Pipe Wrench Trucker

I know this is probably going to sound ridiculous to some people, but honestly this has been bothering me more than it should 😅 Every single week, my neighbor rolls their trash bins out to the curb the NIGHT before pickup. Not early morning. Not before work. The entire evening before. And now, like clockwork, I sit in my living room and the main thing I see outside my window is… garbage bins. Maybe it sounds small, but it changes the whole feel of the street. The neighborhood looks messy for half the day because someone decided their convenience matters more than how the street actually looks for everyone else. Before people jump on me, yes, obviously everyone has trash. I take mine out too. But I wait until the morning of pickup because I feel like that’s the considerate thing to do. The bins stay outside for the shortest amount of time possible and the street doesn’t spend an entire evening looking like cleanup day. What gets under my skin is that it feels so careless. Like there was never even one thought of, “Hey, maybe other people don’t want to stare at trash cans outside their homes all night.” And now I’m sitting here debating whether leaving a polite note would make me completely unreasonable 😬 Part of me thinks I should just let it go because technically they aren’t doing anything wrong. But another part of me feels like shared neighborhoods only stay nice when people think beyond just their own convenience. Am I overreacting here!

E3B is getting serious.

Overriding local control, Albany politicians have massively ramped up their railroading of upstate communities, forcing them to take on the burden of far more solar farms on farmland. While in the southern tier this morning, I spoke out on behalf of the many upstate residents who are having their voices and opinions ignored and rejected by Governor Hochul and her henchmen of power hungry, out of touch Albany bureaucrats.