With the temperature being what it was yesterday (a steady 96-97 degrees with full-on humidity), one of the dreaded hauls was the manure box out of a local PDs Mounted Patrol facility.
They have two large dumpsters there, 1-10 cubic yard box for general trash and 1-30 cubic yard box for the manure. Our inept customer service department, despite clear markings that the 30yd box was the manure box, entered into the system a haul for the 10yd box with the hauling commodity of the manure.
When this was called out to the driver, he said that the haul request “Sounds like 30 yards of horse shit in a 10yd boxâ€, hearkening to the expression about pounds of shit and a too small bag.
Sure enough, he was right, it was the 30yd box that needed hauled. But then again, he was also wrong. The box only had 20 cubic yards of manure in it. It seems as though, with the recent heat, the employees couldn’t take the stink and decided that they wanted to spread the joy by having us drive it 25 miles out to the compost facility.
Wasn’t that nice of them.
Btw, the manure box wasn’t the most dreaded of hauls requested yesterday. That award goes to a local crab processing facility who requested their 10 cubic yard box chock-full of crab guts that had sat in the sun all day be taken to the transfer station in the middle of afternoon rush hour.
Makes you wonder how any of us can stand to eat lunch, doesn’t it?
I was in Ketchikan, AK year before last. They have a large crab processing facility right downtown there. It, too, generates a lot of offal, but there, they are a bit more enlghtened: they grind it up, mix it with plenty of seawater, and pump it back out into the bay.
If Ketchikan can do it, why is Puget Sound not doing it?
The only reason I can think of is that there is a larger tidal exchange in Ketchikan, but that may not have anything to do with it. It could also be that Alaskans are just more practical.
Sometimes it pays to have bad sinus’ and no sense of smell!!!
Merle