Day 29 Outakes-Alternative: trash (garbage) pick-up day in southern Oregon
In my main post for today, I put the first of a few photos I took this morning - of several bottles of good beer, placed on top of my large garbage can (aka rubbish bin), sitting out on the street, awaiting the morning drive-by of the garbage persons' (aka sanitation workers) weekly trash pick-up. My way of trying to say thank you to people who not only don't get time off and don't have the 'luxury' of 'sheltering at home' but who must keep working 40 hour weeks doing sometimes exhausting and often dirty jobs (which keep the hidden gears of our societies running smoothly).
My timing was good, I didn't have long to wait before the garbage truck came by. Today with a skeleton crew of just one - a combination driver-slash-trashcan-emptier. He was surprised when I came out into the street to greet him and to try to express, in my own fumbling way, my thank-you's. And the offer of beers was a good one. But he couldn't talk long because he was on a tight work schedule so we exchanged grins and then he got back into the garbage truck---
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And drove off to the next (of hundreds and thousands, I imagine) of his many stops around and through the small city. I watched him go---
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And that was that. Except later, this same morning, a good friend from Spain - who is both a fine photographer and a thoughtful health-care practitioner who in her own world and life must go out on the front lines every day, told me that
"unidos lo vamos a superar" - together we will be able to get through this. I hope she is right.