Independence Day - now and then.
What is that noise? Let me sleep. Just leave me alone. Ut-oh....it's the blue, green, and gray bins PICKUP TODAY! Oh no! I assumed (and we all know what that means: makes an ass out of u and me) they weren't coming this morning! AARGH! Get that stuff out to the curb, now! Throw a robe on, put slippers on, and ask one of the workers "Have they picked up this side of the street?" "No!" Then I looked around and I wasn't the only one scrambling...the young gal across the way was dragging the bins to the curb. Several others up the street were playing beat the clock and the truck, too. Last night when I got home after our Wednesday church service, there weren't many bins out. Each neighbor always put them out the night before. But the neighbors obviously forgot that the workers had a holiday on Thursday, Independence Day. Well, those few neighbors had the last laugh! And they were still in bed and I was on the street. How did this