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I agree with the haircut thing, but what really bums me out is the recycling in my town. They demand you recycle stuff, but won't print out a list of what is acceptable for recycling. The recyclers come about an hour after the trash guys, so whatever they decide to leave the bright green sticker on, i have to hang on to for another week. They take the clear glass, but not the brown. They take the corrugated cardboard most weeks, other times they dont. They dont ususally take the cereal box cardboard, but not pizza boxes. they take the milk jugs, as long as they are cloudy, not the white ones like the hood milk comes in. they also take some kinds oh #2 hdpe, but no PETE or other plaStics. they will take the soda bottles because there is a deposit, but not water bottles i am confused as the dickens, and have tried a dozen times to explain the differences in what is recyclable and not that i have given up, so then the recycling commission sent us a letter complaining that we are nto recycling enough of our waste material. I asked them if the paper they used to write the letter was 100% post consumer content and they said no, so i asked them if they would be offended if i threw it away and they said yes, so i did. The real funny thing is my house is right on the town line, and my neighbors in the next town can put anything they weant in the recycling bin and the guys take it. OH, yeah, the relevance thing sucks, btw

We live out in the country and have to go to the 'dump'. They have seperate bins for stuff like newspapers, beer boxes, bottles, cans, pizza boxes, and soda cans. I believe all this garbage gets hauled away to one big landfill. Anyway, that's what the investigative reporter in the big city wrote. The real problem is getting to the dump. Our town road is kind of hilly and curvy, with no shoulders, just corn fields and cows, and they have a 45 mph speed limit. People with pickups and trailers generally loose their trash on the way to the dump, and there is garbage all over our road. But, only a mile away, there is this nice straight town road, with shoulders, and plenty of passing spaces and the speed limit is 30 mph. Who on these town planning boards thinks this stuff up? And, there is only one cop, and he is never here to catch the kids going 65-70 down our road, but he never fails to stop someone going 40 down that nice straigh town road. Our dump is open on Saturdays from 12 til 4 from November 1st to April 30. The rest of the year it's open from 8 til 12. Now, on May 1st, you'd think they'd stay open just a little longer to accomidate those who forget they started closing at noon. But no, come five minutes late, and you have to hang on to your garbage for another week. I really can't complain, though, because our taxes are relatively low compared to those in the city. We have a well and septic. We had a problem with our septic a couple years ago, and of course, they wanted to rip it all up and install a mound system. No way did we want that. I guess they are just out to make a few bucks, heck what a business.