It's a fine dry bright sunny morning here in Sydney, in contrast to the monsoons we had yesterday, the garbage trucks here in Manly are only outnumbered by the surfers and it's set to be a fine day here in my albeit temporary paradise.
On the subject of garbage trucks (tenuous i know but bear with me) I cant remember being in any city that has more, every other vehicle is a city municipal garbage truck and I think i have worked out the reasoning behind it (no surprises there then, here it comes). You see, these trucks collect the garbage real early, now when i say early we are talking five or six in the morning, so if you have a job with those kind of hours my bet is that you will be knocking off some time around ten or eleven which would get you ideally placed for a full day on the beach with the surf board. So its logical to assume therefore is it not that, not only is the head of Sydney Municipals a keen surfer but he is also looking after the lads as it were by employing five times more garbage trucks than actually needed so that his surfing buddies all get to follow their dream of "The Big One" (wave that is) while still holding down a respectable job.
Now, me being a more than your average sized pale skinned Brit male with a penchant for steak and cheesecake, not all on the same plate of course, (unless its happy hour) I can now relax and feel a little smug knowing that all those God like figures out there with bronzed tans and six packs are all actually garbage men.
All of a sudden I hear wails of "so what is wrong with garbage men?" from every distant corner of the globe, (ok, a couple of you might get offended) well actually nothing, I have many friends in Blighty that collect the bins and are well paid and enjoy their work, but that is not the point here, I am looking for a chink in the armour of these super fit, six pack wearing sport crazy individuals who tackle waves higher than i would feel safe climbing a ladder to and if all i can find on them is they are all garbage collectors then I am going to take it, just like they do the bins, ooohh wit this early, I must take a lie down.
Joking aside and believe me they barely scraped jokes this morning I am astonished at how many litter collections we get here, it seems a truck is outside my apartment every morning and for me to notice it then it is definitely strange as I am hopeless when it comes to routines, I am sure they have their reasons, perhaps someone will now enlighten me (awaits knock on door from 30 angry bronzed bin men imminently)
On the subject of garbage trucks (tenuous i know but bear with me) I cant remember being in any city that has more, every other vehicle is a city municipal garbage truck and I think i have worked out the reasoning behind it (no surprises there then, here it comes). You see, these trucks collect the garbage real early, now when i say early we are talking five or six in the morning, so if you have a job with those kind of hours my bet is that you will be knocking off some time around ten or eleven which would get you ideally placed for a full day on the beach with the surf board. So its logical to assume therefore is it not that, not only is the head of Sydney Municipals a keen surfer but he is also looking after the lads as it were by employing five times more garbage trucks than actually needed so that his surfing buddies all get to follow their dream of "The Big One" (wave that is) while still holding down a respectable job.
Now, me being a more than your average sized pale skinned Brit male with a penchant for steak and cheesecake, not all on the same plate of course, (unless its happy hour) I can now relax and feel a little smug knowing that all those God like figures out there with bronzed tans and six packs are all actually garbage men.
All of a sudden I hear wails of "so what is wrong with garbage men?" from every distant corner of the globe, (ok, a couple of you might get offended) well actually nothing, I have many friends in Blighty that collect the bins and are well paid and enjoy their work, but that is not the point here, I am looking for a chink in the armour of these super fit, six pack wearing sport crazy individuals who tackle waves higher than i would feel safe climbing a ladder to and if all i can find on them is they are all garbage collectors then I am going to take it, just like they do the bins, ooohh wit this early, I must take a lie down.
Joking aside and believe me they barely scraped jokes this morning I am astonished at how many litter collections we get here, it seems a truck is outside my apartment every morning and for me to notice it then it is definitely strange as I am hopeless when it comes to routines, I am sure they have their reasons, perhaps someone will now enlighten me (awaits knock on door from 30 angry bronzed bin men imminently)
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