Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Smelly Strike

The trash collectors in Greece are on strike. It’s the only explanation, and given the way things work around here, the most plausible one. For days and days now, the trash hasn’t been collected—not from the dumpster outside our building, or the one down the street, or the one past that, or any dumpsters anywhere in the city. It’s disgusting—the trash can’t fit in the bins anymore and is just strewn on the sidewalks and in the road around the dumpsters. It smells nasty leaving/coming in the apartment. For once I’m glad it’s not hot out; the smell would literally be unbearable. I hope whatever issues they’re fighting over get resolved soon, but even if they are, apparently there are only 7 or so trucks for the whole city anyway, and it will take a while for them to get rid of all this crap.

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