Many moons ago
I was in desperate need of beer tokens and the unemployment office was not providing me with sufficient means to get pissed, so I got some work with an agency as a refuse collector. It was hard work (the days before wheelie bins, lugging the heavy bastards by hand), but a good laugh with the other guys.
The morning in question, we were running late due to traffic, and after loading the one streets bins into the back, a couple of us set off on foot to get the next streets bins ready by the kerbside. there was a long que of traffic because of roadworks as I crossed the road and only looked down the hill to see if there was anything coming up the road. There was nothing so I started to cross, but as I did so, for no reason I looked to my right, just in time to see 18 tons of bin lorry come whizzing past me on the wrong side of the road. The driver did not want to wait and in doing so missed me by 2 inches. I felt the rim of the tyres brush across my boot toecaps and had i been leaning forward just a bit more, I would have had the front of my skull smashed before being dragged under the real wheels.
Lesson? Always look both ways in anything you do
(boltneck sacrificed a smurf to Cthulhu on, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 22:16, 5 replies)

The former Mr Quar did that job during university holidays
and often came home smelling somewhat ripe!
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 22:20, closed)

I still remember
that smell 20 years on. Somedays it took 2 showers to get rid of it!
(boltneck sacrificed a smurf to Cthulhu on, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 22:37, closed)

Did you also notice your fellow binners scavenging bags of porn
which outraged wives had forced their cowed husbands to leave out on top of the bins to shame them?
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 22:47, closed)

We found
Porn, golf clubs, camping gear, fishing rods etc. It was like ebay but smelling vaugely of shit and old tea bags.
(boltneck sacrificed a smurf to Cthulhu on, Sat 21 Aug 2010, 23:00, closed)

A mate
worked at the dump and furnished his entire flat from discarded stuff.

Including their pets: two hamsters and a snake...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 16:21, closed)