Remember the early days of recycling when you had to put
your stuff in those red tubs with no lids?
You’d smash the two liter bottles and the milk cartons into it along
with your glass and take it to the curb and then hope the wind wouldn’t blow
‘cause if it blew you’d be chasing plastic containers throughout the
neighborhood like some adult Easter egg hunt. I always hated having to pick up
someone else’s milk cartons in my yard. And it seemed like we always lived
downwind from that family with all the kids…
The contents of your tub told a lot about your life, like where
you shopped, what you ate, etc. If you drank a lot of liquor, people knew it, ‘cause
on Wednesday night, your bottles were right there in your open tub for the
world to see. Since the modern recyclable containers have lids, people don’t have
to leave their empties out in the open. We think that this may not necessarily lead to
a higher use of liquor, but, since the bottles are now hidden, this
may lead to a higher consumption of cheap liquor…
Growing up, we used to let Alcoholics Anonymous use a room
at our church for their meetings. Apparently everyone smoked at those meetings ‘cause
smoke would roll out of that room. I always wondered if everyone drank heavily at Smokers’ Anonymous Meetings…
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