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Reality Check
Nov. 11th, 2005 08:37 amToday is the annual ARC (Assoc of Retarded Citizens) mass pickup of clothing and household articles. They had left a card on the door that we can leave donated goods in front of the house by 8am and they would all be picked up today. I always support them when I can.
So Danny and I had sorted out what turned out to be 5 large bags of old clothing, towels, drapes, coats and such, as well as all the unused household articles from our major cleanup of the storage room last week. I woke pre-dawn and carted it all out of the house by 6:30, and labeled it for ARC pickup.
At 6:55am, Danny looked out the front window and said, "Oh, they're already here!". Turns out there were scavengers stealing the stuff. 4 bags of the clothing and towels made it into their SUV before I shooed the woman off.
Some people...we were fuming, but we can't sit in front of the house guarding the stuff all day.
Driving to work through our neighborhood, I saw a bunch of folks had left charitable goods out, but most of the piles looked like someone had already picked through them by 7:45am.
Sigh.
So Danny and I had sorted out what turned out to be 5 large bags of old clothing, towels, drapes, coats and such, as well as all the unused household articles from our major cleanup of the storage room last week. I woke pre-dawn and carted it all out of the house by 6:30, and labeled it for ARC pickup.
At 6:55am, Danny looked out the front window and said, "Oh, they're already here!". Turns out there were scavengers stealing the stuff. 4 bags of the clothing and towels made it into their SUV before I shooed the woman off.
Some people...we were fuming, but we can't sit in front of the house guarding the stuff all day.
Driving to work through our neighborhood, I saw a bunch of folks had left charitable goods out, but most of the piles looked like someone had already picked through them by 7:45am.
Sigh.
