This morning as I was leaving to go to work, with coffe in hand, I exited my apartment to find a bag of garbage standing by my front door. Yes, a bag of garbage. Well, needless to say, I was a little perplexed. You see, I had not put it there.
I did not quite know what to think. It was just standing there by the door. My doorbell had not been rung so, I did not think it was a prank. Although it could have been since it is only a few days from Halloween. I honestly did not know what to make of it.
I hoped whoever the garbage belonged to would come back some time during the day and pick it up and deposit it in the trash bins. But, when I arrived home tonight. The garbage was still by my door.
So, I began to pursue to owner of said garbage. I asked one of my neighbors I saw out walking his dog if he knew anything about the “gift of garbage” that had been bestowed upon me. He stated he did not know “who would do a thing like that”. Also a “how rude” was said before he entered his own apartment.
So, I began a door knocking campaign. I knocked on my immediate neighbor’s door and received no answer. So, I moved on down the hallway to the next door. Before I got there, I was greeted by a little boy who “with eyes as big as saucers” told me he did not know anything about the garbage and it did not belong to him or his family. When asked if he was sure, he adamantly stated that he did not know from whence the garbage came.
So, I went back to the bag and noticed there were envelopes in the garbage. One was addressed to the very apartment to which I had just been. So, I went back and knocked on the door and spoke this time with the mom. She said that yes, she had told her son to take out the garbage this morning. I told her that said garbage had made it as far as my front door and no farther.
This is where I was expecting her to apologize and say that “it will not ever happen again” (even though it should not have happened this time). That she would speak with the young man and have him apologize to me. I got neither of those.
You see, it states in the apartment “handbook”….you are not to leave garbage outside your door. And, here today, garbage was outside my door all day. Making me look like I am disobeying the rules….
Also, the apology I got was less than sincere. She did, however, have her younger son remove the bag from my doorstep.
I guess I am going into this because I am disappointed in the mom and in the son. The mom because she acted like it was “no big deal”….Well, she did not have garbage deposited outside her door…. (Bet she would have changed her tune then). And, disappointed that she had not taught him better. I would never have been allowed to do anything like that when I was a kid. And, if I did, punishment would ensue with me also having to apologize.
Where are manners and good breeding. You don’t have t be rich to have either.
