Another drone roadkill.
We picked up the scattered remains of a toy-grade drone that thought it could go head-to-head with a car, which, based on absolutely no evidence, was a 1998 Toyota Corolla. The drone hit the road. Literally. The kid piloting it saw the impending disaster, dropped the controller, and dove for cover. The Corolla didn’t even notice. Somewhere, a user manual quietly burst into flames.
We found the minimal remains of another piece of electronic roadkill.
It was an under-the-counter combination AM/FM radio and CD player.
Now it’s an under-the-car combination AM/FM radio and CD player. There is no evidence that it was a 1998 Toyota Corolla, though.
Somewhere, a comedian laid an egg.
Judging by the silence, it wasn’t a chicken, and it wasn’t funny.
We found this two-wire temperature sensor just lying in the street, clearly burned out on commitment after being run over.
It has stopped reporting, electronically and emotionally.
We found yet another credit card.
You’ve got to give people credit for their ability to lose cards. Does it affect their credit rating?
These glasses were in the park-and-ride.
They are not cheap readers; they’re bifocal prescription glasses, but not a strong prescription, which is why they got lost. If someone has a strong prescription, they need to always wear their glasses.
We found a full bottle of hand soap on the curb.
Someone clearly washed their hands of the situation… and then walked away.
Or maybe they saw our hands while we were picking up trash and dropped an unsubtle hint.
A run-over page from a traffic flagger’s handbook.
Ironically, at the time of impact, the flagger was reading the line: ‘Do not turn your eyes away from approaching vehicles.’
Another canister of N2O.
It weighed only 3.2 pounds, but it was still no laughing matter to carry it home.
We got a cool sign.
Okay, not much, but it was free, and that’s cool.
After the kid’s 34th ‘up-down-up-down’ window game, dad finally snapped.
Switches yanked, problem solved.
A multiheaded USB charging cable.
Appropriately run over multiple times.
We keep finding these near the freeway and park-and-ride areas.
Marlboro: For people who smoke just enough to regret it.
Near the 7-Eleven, we found two unopened cans of juice.
“Orange” you happy for us?
Someone lost their anti-radar license plate.
It also works on the toll lanes.
The remains of some ripped-apart Instacart bags.
The crows found the Freedom credit card and ordered from Instacart, then ambushed the delivery driver. “Hmm, my roadkill opossum is a bit too tender. Can we have a redo?”
At the park-and-ride, we found a box of pistachio nuts.
The crows found them almost immediately.
We now have four construction sites on our routes.
On the upper left is a valve house for the Tolt Pipeline that we walk by five days a week, and on the upper right is the widening of 100th Ave NE on our Friday route. On Saturday, we pass by the construction of a bus stop on the I-405 freeway and a major reconstruction of the I-405/SR522 interchange, currently almost 60% over the original budget. When we walk past, on the Saturday when they are not working, they keep all the portable light generators running. It’s no wonder they are over budget.
When Chuck was in the fourth grade, we saw his first horror movie, The Beginning of the End, about grasshoppers that got into some experimental plant food and became supersized. And carnivorous for some reason.
At the time, Chuck lived in Mississippi, where, at night, crickets made a lot of noise, contributing to Chuck’s nightmares. Chuck eventually got over it. Today we found a two-inch long fly.
Here we go again. Chuck still isn’t sure where they found those giant grasshoppers.
That wraps up another TrashWalking week. Our inventory this week is:
We were walking across the freeway overpass this week and spotted a bottle cap just over a chain-link fence. We reached over with our picker and picked it up. Then, we saw a candy wrapper a bit farther in, but still reachable. Then we saw something else, well out of reach.
We walked to the end of the fence and came back fighting a couple of trees to get by, but it was worth it. In the ten years we have been walking, this is only the second fifty-dollar bill we have found. It made our week, and probably our year. We did find more change through the week.
In the upper right, we found five dimes and a nickel on the overpass, but one of the dimes was bent in half. At the bus stop on Brickyard Road, we long ago hung up a plastic bag for folks to use for trash. And in the lower right, we found seventy-eight cents in the bag. This is the second time we’ve found money in it.
Items of apparel.
The sweater and the shoes were found in the park-and-ride. The sweater and blue kids’ jacket will find their way to Goodwill. The black hoodie was thrown up on, and the shoes were buried in the bushes. Both are in the trash can.
Two tools.
A 7/16ths deep socket and a sprayer of some sort.
Two condoms.
The first one was across from the apartments on Woodinville Drive near two parked cars.
As we approached, picking up bits of trash, a lady got out of one car, said she would pick up the trash by her car, which she did, and put it in my bag. She then proceeded to get into the first car. That was nice of her, but it would have been better if she had picked up the condom too.
The second condom was in one of the construction areas. Is this another reason for the cost overruns?
One urine container. This was on Riverside Drive and we had seen it there for about four days but it wasn’t until Saturday that we walked that route.
This looked like a typical dairy drink, and we opened it to dump it out. However, the contents didn’t look like milk, and one sniff identified it a well-aged urine. Got milk?
- $52.96 including a year-making U.S. Grant.
- 7 Roadkill including three rabbits and a drone.
- 5 Balls.
- 4 Items of apparel, 2 for Goodwill and 2 for the trash.
- 4 Construction sites.
- 3 Pairs of glasses, only one worth keeping.
- 2 Tools, a meager week.
- 2 Condoms, one with cost overruns.
- 2 Switches out the window.
- 2 Cans of orange juice to be fed to Chuck when he least expects it.
- 1 Undercover urine container.
- 1 Freed Freedom credit card.
- 1 Free sign to go with the Freedom Card.
- 1 Crow with a Freedom card ambushing an Instacart delivery driver.
- 1 Giant killer fly.
- 1 Laid egg.
- 1 Bottle of hand soap that will come in handy.
- 1 Failed flagger.
- 1 Not-laughing gas bottle.
- 1 Covert license plate.
Have a great week, and remember, our TrashWalking just outperformed your 401(k) this week.
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