This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2007.
The Company Store
I just moved to Halifax from Toronto and I can not believe the state of affairs with regards to renting apartments in this fair city. The feudal process of ‘applying’ to rent an apartment in which you need to provide your previous landLORD’s name and nu
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Ah…….I thought I Was the only one terribly annoyed by this shit. Every saturday morning someone sits outside of my bedroom window and rearranges the bottles they have collected in their shopping cart for about 20 mins…Im about ready to freak out!
Ugh the same thing happens in my neighbourhood on Fridays. I’m so sick of being woken up at 3-4 am by the din of a couple hundred glass bottles rattling all the way up my street in a shopping cart. Adding insult to injury, the scavengers don’t bother to re-tie the bags once they’ve rummaged through so the recyclables that were so neatly bagged and set beside the curb end up strewn all over the place. It’s great waking up sleep deprived and cranky Friday mornings and cleaning garbage off my sidewalk/lawn before heading merrily off to work.
I understand your annoyance, as it happens everywhere. The chance of this ‘scavenger’ reading this article , or any newspaper, is very slim. Well, you got the chance to say your peace anyway.
earplugs?, headphones?, zen meditation?