Those Brits and their booze
NS March 17th, 2008
A conversation between two men, overheard at the glass recycling centre this morning
Man 1: I noticed you have quite a lot of bottles. I assume you run a bar?
Man 2 (looking down at the numerous boxes, bags and barrels full of glass bottles stacked by his feet): You’d think so, huh? *embarrassed laugh*
Man 1: Ah, I thought so. I’m an entertainer, you see. Here’s my card. If you ever need someone for a disco or quiz nights, things like that, just give me a bell.
Man 2: Uhhh…sure, thanks. We’ll be needing a dj for our wedding so I’ll keep that in mind.
Man 1: Your wedding?
Man 2: Yeah, I’m getting married later this year. These bottles were just from our engagement party this weekend.
Man 1: Oh, I see. Looks like it was a smashing success then! I like a couple who know how to have a good time, I do. Congratulations!
Man 2: Thanks! (carries on dumping dozens, maybe hundreds, of bottles into each bin)
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at least he was recycling!
I swear that same thing happens in the midwest 20 times a day!
O Noble Savage! I am a fellow Noble Savage, mother of a 5-year-old (and a 3-year-old) and “Crossing the Pond” columnist living in Cornwall. How do I get in contact with you?
Thank goodness over here one’s bottles are collected, so we don’t have to face anyone over the sometimes alarming amount of bottles we have.
i often feel like bree van de kamp from desperate housewives when i take out my trash. clink, clink, clink! glad i’m not the only one!
Becky, I remember one time last year when my neighbour came out for a chat right after I’d put out two huge recycling boxes FULL of booze bottles after we’d had a party. And there’s me, wearing TNC in a sling at the time. I was quite embarrassed until I remember where I was and that he most likely wouldn’t call CPS and/or AA on me like might happen in some parts of the US.
Andrea, you naughty girl, bottles in your trash. Get thee to a recycling centre! Do they not collect them there in Chi-town?
Jen — too right!
Momma Love: I always thought of the Midwest as more of a beer CAN kind of place, not bottle. And I’m from there!
Gillian, I have emailed you.