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Watched my neighbor in Bakersfield toss a full recycling bin into the trash truck, and I froze
I was walking my dog last Tuesday when the truck came down our street, and I saw him wheel his blue bin over and dump it straight into the trash. I stood there for maybe 20 seconds and said nothing, because I did not want to start something over a fence. Then I spent the rest of the week wondering if one person calling it out even matters when the city keeps sending mixed signals about what happens to the bins. Was I wrong to stay quiet, or is putting one neighbor on the spot pointless when the real fix is a better pickup system?
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charlier344d ago
My dog would've judged me the whole walk home, so you're braver than me for only freezing for 20 seconds. In my experience one neighbor saying something rarely changes anything, but staying quiet doesn't fix the mixed signals either. Take this with a grain of salt, but a quick call to the city about the pickup rules might do more than a fence argument ever would.
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