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1. Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 13:46:55 UTC Ruby Rhod

   • Ruby Rhod
   Spent 1.5 hrs yesterday walking the neighborhood and those adjacent picking up trash, especially collecting glass bottles and sweeping up broken glass on the sidewalks. There's been an increase in broken glass recently and it drives me insane because every dog walk has turned into a game of "direct the dogs around all the menacingly large chunks of booze bottles"
   
   I don't get what the appeal is of breaking all your bottles. I wish those people would stop cutting through my neighborhood on the way to/from the liquor store
   • Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 13:51:21 UTC Ruby Rhod

     • Wiola Poni
     @pony nope, only the wheelie bins for each residence and they're not stored near the street or sidewalk
   • Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 14:36:54 UTC Ruby Rhod

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     A block away from home I was combing the sidewalk for more glass shards and I heard someone illegibly repeating themselves from a distance. I thought it was someone trying to get attention of their kids or something. Turns out it was this Latnix father asking me what I'm doing
     
     him> Hi, what are you doing?
     
     me> picking up trash, but mostly looking for glass. There's a lot of broken glass around here.
     
     him> *puzzled* why are you doing this?
     
     me> I walk my dogs through this neighborhood and there's so much broken glass it's dangerous for them. It's also dangerous for the neighborhood kids.
     
     him> i picked up glass and put it in that bag with the leaves. i tie it shut so my kids don't get cut playing with the leaves.
     
     me> yes, I don't want the kids to get hurt either
     
     him> *puzzled* you do this for free?
     
     me> yes
     
     him> there is a lot of trash and glass here
     
     me> we can solve it, together!
     
     him> *smiles and waves bye*
     
     
     
     This was not the only encounter of children or adults confused that someone would... pick ... up ... trash
   • Ruby Rhod (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Sep-2019 14:42:05 UTC Ruby Rhod

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     My high score was four 5-gal buckets full before the rain was too much. Best find was that a neighbor just got an exceptionally large weed delivery recently and somehow the bags got into the street. Definitely came through the mail. Classic vacuum-sealed bags inside a vacuum-sealed bag.