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The dumpster divers in my Sea View neighborhood of Los Angeles are many and most of them are rather annoying.

My neighbors and I have been given three dumpsters each for our places; one green one for yard debris, one blue one for recyclable and one black one for neither yard debris nor recyclables. The black one's for trash.

Anyway ... the divers target the blue bins and cull out the beer cans (from mine, read that as LOTS OF BEER CANS) and glass, such as wine bottles (from mine, read that as LOTS OF WINE BOTTLES). You've seen them in your city, in your neighborhood, they're everywhere.

I call the ones in my 'hood annoying for a couple reasons. One, they dive every day, and multiple times per day! Jeez! I can hardly empty the in-side bin before I hear someone clanking them into their shopping cart. Two, I spend as much time out in our back yard w/ my family as I can, and the fence surrounding it is not totally opaque. So when dude is dumpster-diving, he or she is right-fucking-there.

Another reason is that one or two of the divers litter like crazy! They throw the shit they don't want out on the ground to get to the juicy morsels of aluminum and glass. The jerks!

Lastly, while not annoying, it's certainly curious: They check the other bins. The yard guys use the green one, almost exclusively, but for the dead basil plants I throw in it. And the black one? The trash? I shit you not, just about the only thing we put in it is used cat litter and dirty diapers. Everything else goes in the compost heap, the In-sink-erator® or the blue recycle bin.

Once, I was outside and witnessed a diver rooting through my blue bin and I said aloud but softly, "yr tooooo late." The diver went to the next one and opened the green one, only to close it again. "Don't open the black one," I said, knowing it was really REALLY foul, "you'll be sorrrrrry ..." The diver opened it. Peered inside. Leaned in. Then recoiled in absolute disgust and vomited on the pavement.

"Told ya," I said.

Tonight - Homestead.


bye-ee!

whrr ... clik!