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One of the things I do at my job is emptying the trash bins of the car park, people throw away all sorts of things, some of them are useful, some of them are disgusting, some of them are intriguing. Then there are the patterns and trends.
I'm talking about a pay car park, all interior inside a building. There's this spot where each week there was a gin bottle in the trash with three or four cans of tonic, but no plastic cups. Each week for maybe ten years then one day it changed to a bottle or two of Ballantine's for two or three years and just recently it changed again to a herbs liquor popular around here.
Other times, not often enough, there are rejected presents, like a pair of new shoes that some guy tossed in the trash. How do I know it was a rejected present? Because it included a birthday note that read something like:
My friends tell me that I should write stories about the stuff I find but I'm really bad at that, it would be fun though.
This post turned out okay. If you think it'll be fun, do it. Don't expect to become a literary marvel overnight, just write 'em for you.