As a kid, I used to wait for the garbage truck at the window and excitedly wave at the workers when they did their job. I was a huge fan.
Here in Germany, we celebrate the OG version of Santa, St. Nicholas who will tally up if you’ve been a good kid and give you sweets (usually someone from the local church will dress up as St. Nicholas and visit the houses of those who requested it and do a little show with poems and all that) on Dec 6th. Kids usually get chocolate figures of St. Nicholas for that day.
So one Dec 6th, the (mostly Muslim mind you) garbage workers rang at our door and gave me this chocolate Nicholas and a bunch of sweets and all because every time they went by our house, I’d make their day with my excitement about their usually looked down upon job.
Message is: thank the trash collectors every once in a while. You’d drown in filth without them.
Why would anyone think it’s strange for anyone to feel fascinated by a garbage truck, or any number of mundane things we take for granted? Do you all know the centuries of progress it took to get us to the point where we can even have garbage men? Do any of you have any sense of gratitude at all?
Also, to show how much we rely on them, look at those garbage collector strikes in France.
Yeah, it would be like that without them, but much worse long term.
🤔 I wonder how it’ll work in the future. Automated garbage chute system, perhaps?
Until then, garbage people definitely do deserve respect.
Like this! (at least in urban areas).
Honestly the way we do things now pisses me off ever since I watched that video. I’ve got 4 different trash containers to take care of (cardboard, organic, small plastics/metal, “other”), so when they’re full the least I should expect is that I could get rid of them down the street instead of waiting a week or two for a truck to come around!
That would require a ridiculous amount of infrastructure pretty much everywhere except New York city maybe
Disney was never for the kids, it’s for the parents to brag that they took their kids there.
The vast majority of kids need very little to be entertained.
Use that money to take time off work and hang out with them more
I definitely remember those trips and cherish them. I didn’t get to go until I was a bit older and those first few times were absolutely incredible. That’s an incredibly cynical take tbh. Some people just want to share the things they loved with their kids. Reducing it down to “they just want to brag” just sounds very bitter.
My kids still wears the tracking bracelet Disney strapped on him 2 years ago. Hope they can tell me where he is soon.
