The Trash Collector

What did you say? There's a what laying on the front walkway? Oh, that's just a... that's a lovely soiled diaper, marred from the torrents of nature, most likely dropped carelessly by someone who thinks of the planet earth as a giant garbage can, and looking at me with a taunting whisper which-- in random-diaper-on-the-sidewalk-speak-- says c'mon, you've got to pick me up some time, it's your job. Yep, you. Go ahead, PICK ME UP!

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I have to wonder if some tenants take advantage of the fact that the caretaker routinely scours the apartment grounds for garbage. Most of the tenants know the caretaker, and they know that he picks up after them, so what's to stop any of them from saying to themselves, "I think I'll just drop these three empty jugs of oil and some old kitty litter right about... here -- the caretaker will get to it in no time."

Yes, because I spend my days looking forward cleaning up after adults, some of whom are much older than me. Often times the experience is reminiscent of my freshman year in college, when I spent a year and a half not cleaning up after the many alcohol-crazed fellows in my dorm. This is the flipside consequence of my gratuitous littering in the very same dorms. And as I'm sure The Walking Dude can attest to, the equally shameful and previously redundant act of dropping an empty box of sour patch kids and a half-full cup of soda on many a show house theatre floor certainly hasn't eased my karmic load. Oh yeah, and it's my job, so I kind of agreed to do it.

In the end, the caretaker deserves the workload given to him. The caretaker will merely balance himself with the Atman, while you further disconnect yourself and gain excess baggage. By all means, people, feel free to leave loads of soiled laundry in the insufficiently large 10 gallon wastebasket. And when the caretaker creates a sign stating "Please place all soiled, unwanted laundry in the dumpster outside.", by all means, remove the sign and continue as you were, because the caretaker is making things right for himself, one day at a time.