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So due to corona and lack of motivation to wait in line with stinky tweekers, my plastic berry water bottles from Trader Joe's really started to pile up here and take up shop space. Something had to be done. I keep hearing about these green bags and how fast and easy it is to drop off your bags without all the hassle. So I set up the account online and requested the card you need to get bags and labels, much to my horror, they don't mail it to you so you have to go pick it up. I wrote down the stupid code, and a few days later when I was driving by I swung by to get my bags/tags. I had to wait in line in that stinky place, and of course my code was no good or expired, which is fine because I didn't write down or bring my PIN anyways. So a week later I made a second attempt, this time successfully, I felt almost like I won the lottery.
So I get back to the shop and spend at least an hour emptying the normal sized trash bags full of bottles so I can stuff as many as I can into the green bags without crushing anything. I wasted at least an hour doing this. The next day I stuck on the labels, loaded up the Highlander with 15 green bags and made the 1.5 mile drive down the street to the bottle drop disaster. There was girl already at the little trap door trying to stuff in a green bag, the thing was jamb packed, she left with a couple green bags in her car. So I go inside and ask an employee if I can deposit my bags behind the counter since there drop off area is full. She said I would need to come back at a later time. I asked when is it normally not full, she said first thing in the morning. Great, so now I have a full car of green bags, even one in the passenger seat. The self drop closes at 10PM so I swung by at 9:30PM just in case the situation improved, nope. So this morning I drove over there at 9:30AM, it was already a zoo with a line of depressed looking people lined up half the length of the building. Pulled up to the self drop, there was another girl trying to shove in some bags of bottles, she got in two with great effort, but otherwise it was so tight you couldn't squeeze a booger in there. That was it, I had enough, I wasn't going to drive around with that crap for another minute, I wasn't going to unload then reload it to keep seeing if I could deposit a few bags at some point, maybe.
So in protest I dumped all the bags on the sidewalk next the building. Someone asked if they will take them like that I said I really don't give a F. I really hope it caused a tweeker riot with them fighting over $50 worth of plastic. Next time I'll put an add on facebook for 5cents a bottle, if that doesn't work I will throw the bottles in the trash, not the recycling bin. Rant over.
but out of curiosity, is the bottle drop disaster a state run organization?
So I get back to the shop and spend at least an hour emptying the normal sized trash bags full of bottles so I can stuff as many as I can into the green bags without crushing anything. I wasted at least an hour doing this. The next day I stuck on the labels, loaded up the Highlander with 15 green bags and made the 1.5 mile drive down the street to the bottle drop disaster. There was girl already at the little trap door trying to stuff in a green bag, the thing was jamb packed, she left with a couple green bags in her car. So I go inside and ask an employee if I can deposit my bags behind the counter since there drop off area is full. She said I would need to come back at a later time. I asked when is it normally not full, she said first thing in the morning. Great, so now I have a full car of green bags, even one in the passenger seat. The self drop closes at 10PM so I swung by at 9:30PM just in case the situation improved, nope. So this morning I drove over there at 9:30AM, it was already a zoo with a line of depressed looking people lined up half the length of the building. Pulled up to the self drop, there was another girl trying to shove in some bags of bottles, she got in two with great effort, but otherwise it was so tight you couldn't squeeze a booger in there. That was it, I had enough, I wasn't going to drive around with that crap for another minute, I wasn't going to unload then reload it to keep seeing if I could deposit a few bags at some point, maybe.
So in protest I dumped all the bags on the sidewalk next the building. Someone asked if they will take them like that I said I really don't give a F. I really hope it caused a tweeker riot with them fighting over $50 worth of plastic. Next time I'll put an add on facebook for 5cents a bottle, if that doesn't work I will throw the bottles in the trash, not the recycling bin. Rant over.
but out of curiosity, is the bottle drop disaster a state run organization?