The dumpster: the golden chalice, the sacred vessel, of homelessness. From it, the supplicant receives all manner of manna from the horn of plenty of capitalism and conspicuous consumption. If you want to help the homeless, build more dumpsters. Dumpsters provide food, income, entertainment, clothing and shelter. Fill a dumpster today for a better tomorrow.
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Man, when I was in grad school back in the 80s I worked as the midnight shift guard at a country club in Ft. Worth, and they had a monster dumpster out back. Yer buddies would shit themselves, er, well, they'd be really happy to dive into that one. Amazing, the shit that fuckin' place threw away.
ReplyDeleteDuring my St. Mary's University matriculation I was a guard for Pearl Brewery in San Antonio. The brewery threw out an average of 200 cases of beer a day because of dented cans and such. The smell of all that beer in our dumpsters drove the local homeless hopheads crazy. I had to keep peeling them off the brewery's fences.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was an undergrad, early 80s, I was a guard at an oil co. on the south side off I-35, just down the way from the Miller Brewing Co.
ReplyDeleteWhen ever the wind was blowing in the right direction we'd get to smell the brewing process. Love that smell.
I owned a few duplexes off of I-35 near Grayson between Ft. Sam and Pearl Brewery. Who'd a thunk they'd turn that 120 year old brewery into a cooking school?
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