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When I first moved into this apartment last July, I noticed most of
the people leaving their trash in front of their doors when I left for
work in the morning. I decided to see what happens to it so, the next
morning, I left my own bag of trash outside my door. When I came home
that afternoon, it was gone.

It was never stated directly to me that trash pickup service was
included, but, I didn't mind not having to walk to the other side of my
building in order to drop it down the trash chute. Especially since, in
the summer months, while the rest of the apartment complex is covered in
those disgustingly ENORMOUS waterbugs, the trash room has even MORE of
them since that room is generally dark, and cool, and full of trash.

Last Thursday, Jess put some trash outside our door. Friday morning,
she noticed it was still there, but that other people's trash was gone.
We wondered if maybe our apartment complex just decided they didn't like
us any more. We added another bag to the pile to test this theory.

The trash doesn't get picked up on the weekends, and no one picked it
up on Friday while we were in Longview. So Jess and I had pretty much
decided that, since the rest of the trash seemed to be taken out, the
just didn't like us.

Jess just told me that one of the apartment office people banged on
our door this morning and asked her if she would please take our trash out.

Ha! Bastards.

I think tomorrow morning, I'm going to put my trash by someone else's
door and see if it gets picked up.