Civic duty, I perform it
Dec. 2nd, 2010 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceHee. I just put the recycling out.
Let me repeat that, for the slow-of-uptake: I just put the recycling out. In the midst of a blizzard, in the greatest accumulation of accumulated snow that I can remember in thirty years on Tyneside.
I have faith in our council collecting-trucks. Never mind that Amazon's minions are utterly incapable of driving to my door, I believe devoutly that the council will find a way to the back alley.
And never mind that I didn't bother to put my boots on for the ten-metre trek from my gate to the alley, so never mind that my house-shoes are now full of snow which will soon become ice-water and give me a fatal chill. I have done what I ought to do, and also incidentally what I desperately needed to do, for never were there so many bottles that needed taking away.
We shall see. If they don't come, I'm no worse off except for cold feet. And if they do come, I shall be pleasantly impressed. And shall curse Amazon's minions all the more. Which will be pleasant also, at least for me. No doubt the accursed will be suitably chastised. *has faith in demons of retribution*
Let me repeat that, for the slow-of-uptake: I just put the recycling out. In the midst of a blizzard, in the greatest accumulation of accumulated snow that I can remember in thirty years on Tyneside.
I have faith in our council collecting-trucks. Never mind that Amazon's minions are utterly incapable of driving to my door, I believe devoutly that the council will find a way to the back alley.
And never mind that I didn't bother to put my boots on for the ten-metre trek from my gate to the alley, so never mind that my house-shoes are now full of snow which will soon become ice-water and give me a fatal chill. I have done what I ought to do, and also incidentally what I desperately needed to do, for never were there so many bottles that needed taking away.
We shall see. If they don't come, I'm no worse off except for cold feet. And if they do come, I shall be pleasantly impressed. And shall curse Amazon's minions all the more. Which will be pleasant also, at least for me. No doubt the accursed will be suitably chastised. *has faith in demons of retribution*