Found a bottle of vodka in a dumpster on a ride, you?
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In any event, I have no problem looking in certain dumpsters. Many years ago I pulled a copy of this album from atop a pile of C&D debris in a dumpster.
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Many years ago, on the 5th of July, I was riding my 3-speed behind the strip mall and looking in dumpsters. I discovered the holy grail for 12 year old boys! The fireworks stand dumped all their unsold inventory in the dumpster the night before. It took me 5 trips hauling the take home in my canvas saddlebags. I was able to have hours of adolescent fun that summer shooting off fireworks with my buddies.
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Don't you find, though, that dumpsters really kind of tend to stink? Like that guy at the Chez Paul said in "The Blues Brothers" - They smell bad. Specifically, they small like garbage. Maybe I'm doing it wrong, but every time I've been too close to a dumpster or I've accidentally touched a dumpster or I've - heaven forbid - reached into a dumpster, I can smell the garbage on my clothes the whole rest of the day. Or maybe my nose is just too sensitive? I can get some nice clean non-stinky bottle of vodka six days a week; why drink the stinky stuff?
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No, this thread is about you finding a half bottle of vodka in a dumpster and proceeding to brag that you drank it with no concern for yourself, in particular that it may have been adulterated. You were just really proud that you were able to score some cheap booze. Which in reality might be the sign of someone suffering from severe alcohol addiction.
Regardless, taking home a half bottle of vodka from a dumpster is abnormal behavior. Period. That is not ad hominem, it is a factual observation of behavior that is not socially normal. Asking if you’re a troll is not an attack, and is quite reasonable considering the behavior you’ve claimed seems awfully odd, and posts like this are historically just troll jobs. Wondering if you’ve got brain damage is not ad hominem. Brian damage is not just a congenital condition, and in fact it is quite common amongst people who have suffered Traumatic Brain Injuries due to concussive impacts and/or significant oxygen deprivation.
Regardless, taking home a half bottle of vodka from a dumpster is abnormal behavior. Period. That is not ad hominem, it is a factual observation of behavior that is not socially normal. Asking if you’re a troll is not an attack, and is quite reasonable considering the behavior you’ve claimed seems awfully odd, and posts like this are historically just troll jobs. Wondering if you’ve got brain damage is not ad hominem. Brian damage is not just a congenital condition, and in fact it is quite common amongst people who have suffered Traumatic Brain Injuries due to concussive impacts and/or significant oxygen deprivation.
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Can you call it a "ride" if you stop to check out what's in the dumpsters along the way?
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So my last experience with dumpster diving was near missing a guy's head a few years ago with my trash because I didn't know he was in the giant dumpster behind my apartment building. He stood up just as I was throwing it and we both yelled because he was just a couple inches from me and we were startled. He actually drove a truck around the complex and would take the furniture that people threw away. It never occurred to me to check for human occupancy before throwing my trash.
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In any event, nowhere is there any indication that the (non-existent) bottle was "half drunk." The (non-existent) bottle not being full does not necessarily mean that some of its (non-existent) contents were consumed.
You are very good at the role you play. Wondering if you are this Rip Van Winkle.
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The owners used to have a sweet, old cat named Ducky. They named it that because it made a quacking sound. It was a relatively rare orange tabby female. A couple of years ago I stopped by on the first day of a tour to pick up a zucchini to go with dinner. I was deeply saddened to learn that Ducky had been hit by a car and killed a few weeks earlier.
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845 Tuckahoe Rd - Google Maps
If you pan around you can see some traffic. The image capture is from a November. During the spring and summer there is more traffic, especially on the weekends are people now use backroads to get to the beach in order to avoid the busy expressways. That part of NJ used to be much less populated, and there were more farm stands along that road. The rest are now all gone.
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Just like nobody would ever take home bottles of OTC pain medication, adulterate the contents and return them to the shelves, ushering in the age of tamper-resistant packaging.
In any event, nowhere is there any indication that the (non-existent) bottle was "half drunk." The (non-existent) bottle not being full does not necessarily mean that some of its (non-existent) contents were consumed.
You are very good at the role you play. Wondering if you are this Rip Van Winkle.
In any event, nowhere is there any indication that the (non-existent) bottle was "half drunk." The (non-existent) bottle not being full does not necessarily mean that some of its (non-existent) contents were consumed.
You are very good at the role you play. Wondering if you are this Rip Van Winkle.
I've never seen anyone do a blindfold taste test between rubbing alcohol and quality vodka, but a person wouldn't need to have bad intent to reuse a fancy vodka bottle as their rubbing alcohol container, they might even find it funny as a private joke. Nowhere in that scenario would they have given thought to what might happen after it's been discarded. People rarely do.
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One fall, while returning from a long-weekend tour, I stopped at a roadside farm stand and bought a blackberry pie after confirming that the stand had a roll of duct tape I could use. I taped the box to the platform of my front rack. Made it all the way home without any damage.
The owners used to have a sweet, old cat named Ducky. They named it that because it made a quacking sound. It was a relatively rare orange tabby female. A couple of years ago I stopped by on the first day of a tour to pick up a zucchini to go with dinner. I was deeply saddened to learn that Ducky had been hit by a car and killed a few weeks earlier.
This is the place:
845 Tuckahoe Rd - Google Maps
The owners used to have a sweet, old cat named Ducky. They named it that because it made a quacking sound. It was a relatively rare orange tabby female. A couple of years ago I stopped by on the first day of a tour to pick up a zucchini to go with dinner. I was deeply saddened to learn that Ducky had been hit by a car and killed a few weeks earlier.
This is the place:
845 Tuckahoe Rd - Google Maps
I had an orange male cat whose best animal friend was a wolf-dog hybrid, and they would cuddle on a couch together.
My now-adult son just told me about all the critters my orange cat killed around the house we were living in at the time. I had no idea. I think at the time, my son didn't want to "tattle" on the cat.
The "dumpster divers" in that neighborhood were all of the racoon variety.
Bicycle.
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Also, I never said this thread was dumpster-specific, so there is no reason to fixate on them.
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I had an orange male cat whose best animal friend was a wolf-dog hybrid, and they would cuddle on a couch together.
My now-adult son just told me about all the critters my orange cat killed around the house we were living in at the time. I had no idea. I think at the time, my son didn't want to "tattle" on the cat.
The "dumpster divers" in that neighborhood were all of the racoon variety.
Bicycle.
My now-adult son just told me about all the critters my orange cat killed around the house we were living in at the time. I had no idea. I think at the time, my son didn't want to "tattle" on the cat.
The "dumpster divers" in that neighborhood were all of the racoon variety.
Bicycle.
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Pulling a half-drunk bottle of vodka out of a dumpster is just plain disgusting.
However, a bottle of 12 year old scotch...
However, a bottle of 12 year old scotch...
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Found a half used bottle of wet lube in the dumpster, but I only use dry lube so I left it there.
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