Thursday 20 September 2007

Let's seen how they handle this

We live near a school. Which is great, as the school has a couple of good playgrounds and we can take monkey down there to work up a sweat once the inmates have gone home. When we moved, I thought that living near a school might be a bit of a trial (screaming kids and all that), but it's fine - apart from the idiot mums dropping their little darlings off each morning.

The only bone of contention is that their bulk rubbish bin always gets emptied at the most god-awful hour. It's one of those big bins where a truck drives up to it, sticks a couple of forks into it and up-ends it behind the cab, giving it a good shake in the process. I have no problem with a truck turning up at say 8pm to do that, but the driver that has this patch likes to turn up at midnight to do it.

If they can't land planes at Sydney airport after 11pm because of the racket, what makes him think he can drive down quiet suburban streets after that hour with a bin-shaking truck?

I've tracked down the email address of the school and sent them a quick note asking them to get the company to do their thing a bit earlier in the night.

I'm interested to see if I get any response, let alone any action.

Firstly, our state schools don't seem to be wired up to this interweb thingy too well. They understand email to the same extent as cavemen understood mobile phones, so I am not sure anyone will actually read it, since it requires turning on the computer thingy that is sitting in the corner under a drop sheet.

Then there is the matter of taking action - picking up the phone and calling the rubbish company and having a word with them. Since many teachers these days seem to have issues with having words with a 7 year old, I can't imagine how they will take on a rubbish company manager.

We wait with baited breath.

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