To our garbage pick up people:
Thank you for taking away our trash every week. We really appreciate it especially on the rare Monday morning when we stack boxes and boxes of "why did we move this from Ohio?" crap alongside the curb with our normal 2 cans and 2 bags.
However... A basketball that rolled under the bush near the curb and trash cans is not trash.* Especially not an imported from Cincinnati 2005 Skyline Chili Crosstown Shootout basketball that I bought because 1. it's from Skyline (one of our favorite restaurants and we miss it so much that I flew 10 cans of chili back to Maryland last October), 2. I went to Xavier University, Greg went to UC (Xavier won the game last year, na-na!), 3. I grew up in Indiana where you are born with a basketball in your hand (it makes for interesting deliveries but can't be avoided, Hoosier law).
If you had taken a second to look around the yard, you would have seen scooters, soccer balls, plain basketballs, bikes, and inside toys that are brought outside even though I yell all the time "do not take these toys outside!" Therefore it would be easy to assume that my kids don't know how to clean up after themselves and the basketball was not trash, just in the wrong place at the wrong time.** If you really want to trash items from our yard, how about the empty juice boxes and granola bar wrappers instead?
Thank you for your attention in this matter and I hope it will not happen again.
* Now if you stole my basketball, I'm going to stop double bagging the really gross stinky leaky trash and leave it outside in the 90 degree heat for a week or two. Don't mess with me and Skyline/Xavier/Hoosier-basketball-roots.
** We know the garbage people took it and it's not just lost because Zach tearfully admitted to leaving it under the bush Sunday night and then couldn't find it Monday afternoon (it's his favorite ball too).
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