Okay. So, I’ve mentioned before how much I love to people watch, but I fear I’ve become quite obsessed with one of our neighbors. And not in a good way. (If there is a ‘good way’ for one to become obsessed with watching their neighbor.)
He is an older man who lives alone. He keeps weird hours and I’ve never seen him with a woman. Or a man. Or any visitors whatsoever including family members for that matter.
But what has my utmost attention? Since I have been observing this man, I’ve noticed over the last 6 months, I have never seen the man put out a single trash can.
In our complex every Tuesday & Thursday is garbage day. And every Wednesday & Friday is recycling day. Every other house hold on the block puts out at least ONE trash can on any of those given days.
Except for this dood.
So. WHERE IS ALL OF HIS GARBAGE? And. What is he doing with his trash?
Its not like we live in an area or street where he can burn his garbage. He drives a small Mercedes so it’s hard to imagine him loading his vehicle and transporting his waste elsewhere. Moreover why would anyone need or want to do that?
Seriously.
I need to know what this guy does with his garbage.
Ya’ll have any ideas?
In other news…I have not been able to stop laughig at this.
Its been a long time since I made any comments!! Thsi guys gotta be strange. Any strange odor coming from his house? Ive seen my share of the strange. Ive gone in to homes on fire calls where there is only a 12″ wide path to walk and @#$# packed to the ceilings.
1 he packing it in his house.
2 bagging it and visiting the local dumpsters at the mall and various shopping centers.
3 putting it in your garbage can
Hope this gives some ideas!!
Dan
FYI said neighbor has not put out his garbabe for SEVEN YEARS!!!!
He has been the talk of the cul-de-sac forever.
In fact, just before moving to Main, Tom asked said neighbor, ‘I gotta ask you. What the hell do you do with your garbage??’
His response, ‘I bring it to work and throw it out there.’
Unfortunately, there were no follow up questions asking WHY???
It’s still a mystery and the subject of many far fetched conspiracy theories.
No idea on the trash, but that Tina Fey has won my heart. 😀
Probably wouldn’t want to step foot into his home. Most likely trash everywhere! When an individual gets older they tend to start becoming less aware of what is garbage and what isn’t. If he is elderly…maybe have a professional check into him? Curious…
We had this neighbor who held onto everything. Heard this secondhand from the babysitter we use – he had helped her clean her house. Stuff everywhere. Makes you wonder what people think when they hang onto this much stuff! Garbage, though – ewww — that’s just wrong. I can see going a couple of weeks, but….
Dan?
OMG! Wow. it really HAS been a very long time. Nice to see you again!
🙂
I dont think that he keeps it in his house. But, I could be wrong.
Mom:
What job? That guy HAS a job? I see his car HERE all day, every day. Except for sometimes when he leaves at those weird hours in the same white t-shirt presumably headed to AC. Hmm…maybe we can get daddy AKA “question man” to find out?
Tree:
See. Tina is my IDOL.
M:
I am DYING to see what the INSIDE of his house looks like. And I really need to know what he does with his trash.
Lance:
Maybe he is one of those people that cant part with anything? I have no idea. Its driving me CRAZY.
Is his name “Sanford?”
If so, then salvage is his livelihood. Leave the poor guy alone.
..or he’ll sick Lamont on you.
Do you have to pay per bag of garbage? Some places do charge that way. I’m thinking how this could possibly be a money-saving thing and he is bringing his garbage to someone else’s house. We have to buy special garbage bags, so the collectors wouldn’t accept anything different. Other than using less bags, opening other people’s bags and depositing in them, or hauling our own, we can’t really save money on garbage. 😉
I am obsessed with several of our neighbors–I keep wanting to find out just how many people live in these houses. I KNOW at least one house here is being rented out to college students, thus the not knowing how many people live there.
Maybe here’s your answer:
Man Stores Garbage for a Year
I bet I know exacty what his place looks like inside …. my job has shown me the some unbelievable things.
One woman had a house head high full of garbage. She was unable to throw anything away … so she rented a new place, and then another. True story!!
moooog35:
LOL
See! That explains it!
CMK:
The cost for “garbage pick up” is INCLUDED in our taxes. So, he’s not saving any money by inconveniencing himself. And, Ive never SEEN him take out his own trash. At. All. I’m seriously going to spy a little more closely this week to see if he brings out as much as a ziplock bag to his car. This mystery must be solved!!
DCR:
Will check that out…right now!
Im back from reading that and a little grossed out. Okay A LOT grossed out.
I guess I understand his reasoning. Sort Of…but still? EW.
(And um we don’t have basements in our development!)
Speedy:
Are you For Real?
Someone kept renting NEW PLACES and filling them with GARBAGE?
*shudder*
I empty my bedroom waste basket Every Night.
I would *freak out* if I was surrounded by trash.
Wow… that is weird! Is it possible he’s putting his garbage in someone else’s can????
If you figure it out… let me know 🙂
He eats at his girlfriend’s (or boyfriend’s) house. Maybe he’s really green and recycles everything at home. Maybe he’s hiding something, too bad you can’t rummage through his garbage to find out what. At night leave some of your garbage in front of his place and then watch what he does with it. Every W/F recycling day? WTH. Try once a month in Hysteria Lane. I watch my neighbor too, only because he be peeking in the window and I’m not always decent, so I peek back when I can. Keep us posted on Mr. Clean.
hmmmm.. . gee. . . i seem to remember a certain single mother who piled her garbage up to the ceiling in a powder room and kept the door closed. why, you ask? because she didn’t feel like taking the bags to the dumpster. isn’t there some saying about throwing garbage, or is it stones????
Dawn:
I will get to the bottom of this one of these days!
Val/Sad Girl:
I dont think he has a ‘partner’ at all. No one on my block has ever seen him with anyone. He is a true loner in every essence of the word!
Hmmm…I might just set up that trap.
“Hysteria Lane” cracks me up every time.
Mom:
yeah.um.er… I have no recollection of that!
He’s gonna be one of those dudes that when he dies your gonna find newspapers and magazines from twenty years ago, along with all of his trash tied in plastic bags and stored in a bedroom. You’ll know when you start to smell him. YUCK !!!! Or maybe he’s a time traveler that uses trash to fuel his Delorian (Back to the Future)
Well that is just weird. My neighbors chuck their trash in the backyard, but never burn it.
I think they did it so I would put up a privacy fence, which I did not want to do–what is the point of living in the country if you have to fence yourself in?
It worked though and he is now on the far side of the fence
…t’s hard to imagine him loading his vehicle and transporting his waste elsewhere. Moreover why would anyone need or want to do that?
Maybe he runs a small business and pays for trash pickup at work. No need to pay for it at home if you’re paying for it at work and can take your trash there.
The Girl You Don’t Bring Home To Momma:
LOL LOL LOL
The ‘Back To The Future’ reference is *awesome*
Thanks for making me laugh!
Paige:
Yes. It really is weird. Thank you!
DCR:
You automatically pay for it at home. Every person in this complex is charged for garbage pick up weather you use the service or not. That’s what’s so VEXING !!!
Its on the other side of his house. He probably eats out a lot. In Fact he may be that lonely guy that comes into The Tavern. Who knows. Just don’t peek into his windows. Could be scary! Maybe he’s watching you back……………………………………………………Maybe ..right NOW.
He may be a hoarder which is a debilitating side of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. It’s a terrible thing.
Or maybe he’s getting rid of it some other way, I know my aunt hardly has any trash … she has a compost in the back yard and is extremely careful in what she buys regarding packaging. She burns the rest. She goes for months without putting out garbage. She’s a little eccentric, lol.
I bet he’s stacking it all somewhere around his home! Or .. does he have a large pond in his yard? Or maybe a wood-burning stove? Those things eat anything, you know! LOL!
Oscar:
I dont see this cat leave his house too often.
But when he does, maybe he is that lonely guy @ your tavern!
Drowsey:
I hope its not OCD like that. That would make me sad.
This guy already makes me sad enough….
He seems so lonely with no visitors and no visible family.
We don’t really have ‘backyards’ over here. We live in townhouses on a golf course, with very strict ‘golf community association bylaws & rules’ – having a place for compost is a big fat No. No.
Your Aunt sounds pretty cool. I did those eccentric types.
Jay:
No pond. No wood burning stoves. Also against ‘golf community association bylaws & rules’
Still a mystery!
You need to go high-tech on him… geiger counter comes to mind first, night vision goggles next, and a radon snooper third. I would lend you mine but I have them currently fixed on a neighbor across the driveway…
Man, I have no clue what he could possibly doing w/his garbage. I’m such a freak about keeping a trash free home. You’ll have to let us know when you find out. …which I’m sure you will eventually. 🙂
That SNL skit was freakin’ hilarious!
Do ya think I could find another use for the work “freak”? I’m thinkin’ probably so!
He’s a tree hugger trying to see how much garbage he produces in a year. Heh. Okay, so maybe not. But I have some issues w/ my neighbors, too. What’s up with those strange folks. They probably think the same thing about me. Not. And I LOVE Tina Fey. She’s better at being Sarah than Sarah is. Definitely.
Rog:
I dont think I’m ready to take it to THAT level!
Steph:
Oh I’ll let you know IF I ever find out.
And that’s why TINA is my idol.
(you can use the term ‘freak’ as much as you’d like)
xxoo
KellyPea:
Yeah…um, at least he’s not like that guy in the tweeted article.
Good Lord!
Hell yes…Tina Fey is WAY better at being Sara than Sara is at being herself….
In fact to quote David Letterman:
Top Ten Things Overheard at Sarah Palin Debate Camp:
10. “Let’s practice your bewildered silence.”
9. “Can you try saying ‘yes’ instead of ‘you betcha’?”
8. “Hey, I can see Mexico from here!”
7. “Maybe we’ll get lucky and there won’t be any questions about Iraq, taxes or health care.”
6. “We’re screwed!”
5. “Can I just use that lipstick-pit bull thing again?”
4. “We have to wrap it up for the day — McCain eats dinner at 4:30.”
3. “Can we get Congress to bail us out of this debate?”
2. “John Edwards wants to know if you’d like some private tutoring in his van.”
And The NUMBER ONE Thing Overheard at Sarah Palin Debate Camp….
1. “Any way we can just get Tina Fey to do it?”
🙂
He must be one of those garbage hoarders or maybe he’s a scientist who’s invented a way to completely recycle everything. I am intrigued. Whatever happens – don’t go into that house!
Could he be a Canadian ET Android of Captain Apaullo Moonbucks who only needs a outlet to recharge his batteries? 😉
Have you contacted Speedy Bondcat 0007 for under-the-cover ops? 😀
Yes, I have watched Tina Fey and Queen Latifah’s excellent comical SNL VP Debate skit many times! 😀
i am thinking…..
http://www.houston-imports.com/dirty/dirty.html
I think Momma stumbled onto something. Is that story another blog post in da works?
who piled her garbage up to the ceiling in a powder room and kept the door closed.
Are the walls of his house bulging? That would be a dead giveaway. I know! Dress up like a Girl Scout and go try to sell him some cookies. Then ask to use his bathroom. Kind of like the CIA.
Selma:
I like the idea of him being a scientist, rather than the sad idea that he has an real OCD condition. And, that could also explain his strange hours and isolation. Yeah. I am going with scientist!
Miss $:
Oh that’s what I need!
Speedy Bondcat 0007 for an under-the-cover operation!
TINA RULES THE WORLD
Paisley:
Um….WTF?
That’s the most upsetting photos Ever.
Dazd:
I am going to plead the 5th on that one.
Lee:
Hmmm….Except I’m too old to pull of that ‘costume’
hehehehe
I bet you his place is a fire hazard inside!!!!
I think I solved it for you. He has an interdimensional portal somewhere inside his house and he’s tossing his garbage into another universe. There is such a portal at the end of my street. Never thought of dumping trash there.
I have another possible solution: the house eats the garbage. 😉
Do you remember, many years ago, there was I think a TV episode where people lived in an apartment building and the building was alive. The apartment building ate their trash. When a new resident moved in, the building got angry because he didn’t properly sort his trash and tossed in stuff he wasn’t supposed to. Do you remember that? I can picture scenes from it, but can’t picture any of the actors or what TV show it was a part of. I’m thinking it was an anthology series, like The Twilight Zone or The Outer Limits, but I don’t think it was either of those. It was, I think, in the late 80’s or early 90’s.
Does he go out to get grocery? Maybe that is when he dump his trash…
If not, got to call Pest Control, the trash is IN his house. Oh, that’s going to be ugly.
Coincidentally, my neighbor is a guy who lives alone. He doesn’t have trash service too. But he does throw his trash whenever he goes out.
This reminds me of something that happened a few years ago : My uncle & his family has a house in a town called Kakkanad that they rented out to a businessman and his lawyer wife for a couple of years. They seemed ok and stuff. The guy lived there more often than his wife, since her work was more in their hometown and his was in my city.
2 years later, my uncle wanted to move to his house and so the business man and his wife were to vacate the house. The dude said that he was moving his business back to his hometown. He came over to my house, gave the key to my uncle, settled the rent and smiled and went away.
When my uncle & aunt went to the house, opened the door – the stench almost gagged them! There were waste everywhere, newspapers littered all over, piles of garbage in corners and left over food all piled on a table. Chicken bones, crusts of bread and stuff. It was a nightmare.
They had to get a crew to clean the place up and the painted the house. My aunt refused to live there until it was painted.
I would be afraid that one day the house will start to rot and smell awfully funny.
I’ll give you a dollar to go ask him. I wanna know.
I don’t know. My neighbor goes out to do her laundry at 3:00 A.M. every Saturday. Older people have trouble sleeping sometimes. Maybe he takes his garbage to a dumpster in the middle of the night. Or he might have a trash compacter.
Um, it’s time to get out and about a bit. lol
Eu contrare…you’re old enough that that costume should get you in the door with no problem whatsoever. 😉
Olly:
I wonder….
DCR:
“and he’s tossing his garbage into another universe.”
Um. Okay?
I remember a children’s TV show named Fraggle Rock where the ‘dumpster monster’ was alive and a character.
In fact he was kind of like an ORACLE. He was the all knowing Trash Heap….
But now I need to Google ‘what tv show was an alive apartment that ate trash‘
BRB with the answer…
IM BACK:
Is it Futurama (1999–2003, 2007-) is an animated television series?
RMH:
Yanno….now that you mention it…
?
Ive never seen him bring IN groceries either.
?
hmmm…..
*weird*
Now I might have to take “ROG” up on his ‘spy gear offer’ to find out
WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING over there!
Roshan:
Shut. Up!
Thats horrible.
Ugh
and
EW!!!!!
Diva:
Ill take that dollar!
xxoo
Awake:
Yeah. I think I need a new hobby too!
LOL
Lee:
LOL. Maybe. Considering tomorrow is my birthday Im not feeling young enough to even sport a skirt anymore. I may just start dressing like Hillary Clinton. Pants Suits 24/7. (less the cankles)
Nope. Wasn’t Futurama. Wasn’t animated. It was just a one-off episode, that’s why I’m thinking it was an episode of some sort of anthology series. I wish I could remember an actor from it, then I would have something to go on. I couldn’t find anything in Google.
Maybe he’s a hoarder! Ew!
i am definitely a ppl watcher too. how else can we get our material? i know of 2 families in our development that transport their garbage in their cars to a nearby city, 2hrs. (both are sanitation workers) cuz they are too cheap to pay for pick up. yuck!
Well hmmm that is really strange Meleah. I pray one day they dont find him in his house with his garbage decomposing all around him filling every room to the ceiling.
Maybe you should try to smell around his place … hehehe … I guess he collect garbage 😀
DCR:
Well, If you find out the name of that show please let me know!
Momo Fali:
I am totally creeped out by this!
Maria:
People watching is the best for character development!
and yeah….ewww.
Jen:
I pray that never happens too.
*shudder* and *yikes*
xxoo
Nick:
Im too scared to try that!
flushes it down the toliet….. saves us a bundle on garbage stickers! maybe he’s burning it to fuel his time machine?