I know it’s environmentally friendly and the right thing to do and just plain good sense, but returning your empties to the bottle depot is just disgusting. I’m sticky and sweaty and I have that sour smell of old liquid that is really quite charming and I wish they would sell it in the stores.
I also have $14.20 in my pocket, which I’ll use to buy more things that will eventually have to be emptied, then returned. It’s a vicious cycle, but I suppose I get extra hippie points for doing it.
I had a fun morning wandering around Granville Island while waiting for Josh to finish his morning work project. I bought some presents for people and also for myself because I am awesome, then we met up and bought beer because I am totally a lush who drinks beer all the time. I’m presently a little angry though, because I called Ed about a dozen times to try and wake him up to no avail – only for him to call me at 1 friggin’ pm and say he just got out of bed. GRR. I wish *I* could be a big dumb sloth too.
K, time for more outsides.
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leave your emptys in the alley, the people who pick them up need the money far more than you do
We did that for years, both in Calgary and at our first place in Vancouver. However, the people taking the empties from the alley here aren’t the ones who need the money – so we take them back ourselves. I’d gladly let someone who needed the money take them; less willing to fund the crack house at the end of the block.