Rubbish.

We have a weekly rubbish bin collection where I live. It is very simple, every Wednesday night we take our garbage bins out to the front lawn and place them near the verge for collection, early in the next morning. Every second week there is also a recycling bin collection, so on that week I also place my recycling bin out, beside my regular garbage bin.... so every second week both the bins go out, and the others weeks it is just the rubbish one.

The other week, on a Wednesday afternoon I has some spare time so decided to take my bin out to the front a little earlier than normal. So I dragged the rubbish bin down the driveway and placed it in position ready for it's big day in the morning. While out in the front garden I looked down the street and saw that no one else has put their bins out yet, except for a business directly opposite my home.

I looked at my neighbour's rubbish bin and realised they had both of their bins out, the general rubbish one, and the recycling one. I was suprised as I thought it was just the rubbish one this week... but my neigbour had both theirs out.. so I went back down the driveway and dragged my recycle bin all the way up the driveway to the front lawn and position it against the verge.

Thursday morning arrives I go to collect my empty rubbish bins, only to find that by garbage bin has been emptied but not my recycling one. Maybe the recycling truck broke down, but the I looked down the street and noticed everyone else didn't have their recycling bin out... only my neighbour and myself.

Oh dear, I had made a mistake. Some people may say that I didn't make the mistake, in fact it was my neighbour and I just simply followed.... BUT that is making a mistake!

That week I had looked at what my neighbour was doing and changed what I had thought...purely based on what they had done. How tempting it can be to watch what someone else does and copy ... assuming they have it right.

Blessings,

Akita.
3-5-07

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