Wednesday, November 23, 2005

The Recycler

The other day I was at a gas station in the valley, and had just put the hose in my tank when a middle-aged guy walked up and began to take cans and plastic bottles out of the trash bin next to me and stuffed them in a large plastic bag he was carrying. I must admit, I tried to ignore him for fear of him asking for money, but as he went around to the other trash receptacles, I got a good look at him and noticed his hair was well kept, he was wearing clean slacks and a collared shirt and a nice, big, gold watch was strapped to his wrist. Once he had made his rounds and his bag was well stuffed, he made his way across the parking lot and chirped-off the alarm... to his '04-'06 Lexus. He got into his large, four door, pearl-white-with-gold-trim LS and drove over to the liquor store across the street and began digging out the cans and plastic from the trash cans over there, too.

Now, no judgment or anything – maybe he needed the extra change to afford some new alloy wheels for his car or maybe he's just an avid recycler or something, but the spectacle did make me chuckle and feel blessed to be living in L.A. to see such a thing.

1 Comments:

At 9:24 PM, Joey Polanski said...

What guy dont like a good set o cans?

 

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