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Nov. 29th, 2011 09:03 amThe woman who lives upstairs from me (duplex) has taken to putting her food garbage on our (chicken wire, uncovered) compost heap. In theory I support composting wholeheartedly, but, um - how does it not occur to a fully-grown (I believe over-30) woman that you can't just leave food garbage lying around uncovered? I've asked her to stop; am trusting in the freezing temperatures to make it okay to leave what's in there, in there. It's smelly even in this weather, tho. And the squirrels are having a field day. I only hope they haven't told their friends, the rats.
I have offered to split the costs of a covered food-and-yard-waste-holding compost bin, though we'd have to disassemble the current thing (which my landlord keeps filling with grapevines and sticks anyway - way to truly fail at the concept, peoples) to have a place to put it.
This is the same woman who _didn't know_ dryers have lint traps. I can imagine, if all you've ever used is laundromat machines, not knowing that. But I've met her family. She grew up with a washer & dryer at home. Did she just _never do the laundry_?
Other people's lack of practical knowledge mystifies me.
I have offered to split the costs of a covered food-and-yard-waste-holding compost bin, though we'd have to disassemble the current thing (which my landlord keeps filling with grapevines and sticks anyway - way to truly fail at the concept, peoples) to have a place to put it.
This is the same woman who _didn't know_ dryers have lint traps. I can imagine, if all you've ever used is laundromat machines, not knowing that. But I've met her family. She grew up with a washer & dryer at home. Did she just _never do the laundry_?
Other people's lack of practical knowledge mystifies me.
