Freecycling, local style
Jul. 22nd, 2010 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI know what I was going to ask! I do understand why, if I put out a box of old tupperware in the back alley, it's gone next time I look; somebody out there will have a use for old tupperware, which is why I put it out.
But what in the world is the use for old pieces of foul '70s carpet? And ditto rotting rubber underlay? We've been cutting it up and taking it out in sections, and I assured the kids that it would be gone by morning, and lo: I was right. It ain't the council, not between seven in the evening and eight in the morning. People drive around in little trucks and pounce on stuff, and very welcome they are to do so. But why? What do they do with it, where do they take it, how does it have a value...?
(They did also take the little piece of lead that I put out as a pourboire. That I understand entirely. The carpet? Bewilders me. The underlay? Underlies that bewilderment, more deeply...)
But what in the world is the use for old pieces of foul '70s carpet? And ditto rotting rubber underlay? We've been cutting it up and taking it out in sections, and I assured the kids that it would be gone by morning, and lo: I was right. It ain't the council, not between seven in the evening and eight in the morning. People drive around in little trucks and pounce on stuff, and very welcome they are to do so. But why? What do they do with it, where do they take it, how does it have a value...?
(They did also take the little piece of lead that I put out as a pourboire. That I understand entirely. The carpet? Bewilders me. The underlay? Underlies that bewilderment, more deeply...)