West Toledo:
There are many issues in day to day life that cause people to act in an irrational manner; religion, politics and of course the garbage pick up schedule in the City Of Toledo. In the past few weeks, more and more oversized garbage and recycling bins have been appearing in neighborhoods.
“This isn’t going to solve the budget problem” said Phil McVickers of Burton Street in West Toledo.
“I bought garbage cans and now the city buys garbage cans, you want to tell them I bought Beer last night too? Ive already killed this case just trying to figure when I need to lug these huge fuckers to the curb”.
While the new cans and trucks are the source of some debate they are not the real problem. The real problem is nobody seems to know the schedule. The City of Toledo Refuse Schedule is published in The Blade at the end of every month, however with the declining number of subscriptions, no one reads the Blade so everyone is confused.
A group of neighbors on Burton St meet every Sunday night each with a bottle of their favorite liquor or a case of the beer of the month special. Every meeting starts off with
“When is garbage pick up here on Burton?”
Phil said : “the hell if I know, these politicians couldn't organize an orgy in a whorehouse”
The confusion comes in the City of Toledo’s “leap day” theory:
Garbage pick up in the City of Toledo is broken out into pick up areas in 5 color coded sectors. Each area is given a number and letter for the recycling days. If there is holiday and the fringe holidays (Arbor Day, the Super Bowl, the day after Thanksgiving, Carty’s Birthday, the Mud Hens home opener , a Ben Konop press conference, Scouts Birthday, The MLK bridge is stuck) all count and the garbage day leaps forward one day unless its in January when the sun sets before six o’clock then recycling is one day behind. That is unless you call the City on Thursday and request the day to be kept the same. You can go down to the City and ask for Denise, who used to work at Taco Bell, and ask her form OU812. If that is denied you can tie a violet (no purple please) ribbon around the bin in form of protest. If you live in East or North Toledo you must have an orange ribbon tied to your garbage bin denoting that the bin is actually garbage and not part of your lawn decorations.
Dr. Michael Asteron a visiting professor at the University of Toledo and Astro-physicist with NASA said:
“I have launched 5 space shuttles, tested 4 lunar satellites and participated in the design for the newest engine for an upcoming Mars exploration vehicle and I still have to walk outside and see when Old Man Haberson has his cans out because he is the only one that has the time to figure this shit out".
Oh I just Love this article. I laughed till I cried because Ive "bin" going round and round to get a problem solved. After numerous calls, several numbers and various humans that stated I would be taken care of no problem (I think they meant I would be cottled into thinking I was being helped so Id go away),I am actual getting my garbage picked up. Perserverance and lots of wasted time I might add. Now comes the change of day, along with the the explaining to my spouse how it is that the garbage night has to change over and over but not every month just on the Governmental city holidays. I cannot understand how any of this has saved the city money because in confusion only we have to have went over budget fixing the problem. I guess they seem to think it evens out say when my grandchildren will have children. I sure hope they are smart enough to move away from here because I was not. Our city is in trouble it is definitely not on track.
ReplyDeleteToledo is being poorly run. First, the mayor justifies his vacation to China by offering up waterfront businesses to the Chinese. Not only are the Chinese being given bargain prices, the mayor didn't offer those businesses to locals or even bother to get appraisals on the properties.
ReplyDeleteNow city council has voted to have a private company, Allied Waste, do the cities garbage pickup. Toledo is still paying for the trucks that they're selling to Allied at a discount, while the city retains the billing responsibilities. Toledoans will now have to pay a monthly fee for garbage pickup and the taxes that the citizens are paying for pickup won't go down. Allied initially offered "bargain" rates but already the company wants to raise the rates and it hasn't even taken over the service yet. Toledoans can still stop this taxpayer subsidized giveaway - they have a month to stop the contract from going into effect. Put pressure on city council and throw out that incompetent mayor.