Those Trashy Neighbors!

The people who lived across the street (not in the apartment complex but in
a duplex across the way and down one) who always let their cats run loose
have moved. And yes, they took their cats with them (whew!). Hopefully
they moved out in the country and not to a higher traffic neighborhood (this
one was bad enough).

Before they moved, all you could see next to the side of their house was a
pile of kids bikes and outdoor toys, a rusted out old grill, stuff like
that. It was an eyesore, but I don't begrudge kids having toys and
obviously they had no place to store them. The grill and a few other things
they could have pitched years ago.

When they moved, they took all the empty boxes and crap they didn't want and
moved it two doors down in front of an empty duplex. Hey, they were gone,
not their problem anymore, right? I have a direct view of this pile of
trash over my patio fence (the fence is only 3 ft. tall). How lovely.

The garbage pickup people don't haul this sort of junk away without special
arrangments being made and for an extra fee. So all this crap has been
sitting there for almost 2 weeks and will sit there for who knows how long.
I sure can't afford to pay to have it hauled off. I don't know anyone who
owns a pickup truck, either. Even if I did, I wouldn't know where to take
it.

There was a segment on the news the other night about eyesores like this and
a number to call to arrange for cleanup. But that was for the city of
Memphis; we aren't in the city so I didn't write the number down. I have no
idea who I could contact about this trash.

I've never left a mess like that in my life and don't understand people who
do. Anway, good riddence to bad rubbish (the neighbors!) ;)

Jill


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