Tree Limb Truck, Meet My Garbage Can

I just happened to come home as the limb truck was picking up limbs in front of  another house on the block. I got the mail and hung out, hoping my stack of limbs would be picked up.. As it turned out, the truck was only two minutes finishing the other house on my block.

It was fascinating watching the finesse with which the guy handled the huge piece of machinery picking up limbs. Now, I would have to wait on the truck that sucks up leaves and grass clipping. Oh, NO. WAIT! He was picking up my garbage can and crushed it. I started waving my hands. It was no use yelling because the truck was too loud.

The guy dropped my broken garbage can. Bummer. Another guy got out and I tried to yell at him, but he come to me. I told him I did not want the can taken. He said that he told the guy not to take it but it was crushed and they would bring me another. I wasn't even angry, just bummed that the mower put it out there. I never told him to leave it out there. Oh well.... Never put anything on the curb that you care about. They take everything....really, a good thing.

One time, 20 or more years ago, I put five gallon buckets alongside the garbage cans. The buckets were full of trash, and I had every intention of using them again. Scratch that!

Our streets are pristine and we have no street cleaners and no one has to move the vehicles they own to the other side of the street. This town is cleaner than other small towns. We all pick up trash in front of our houses instead of letting it lie.

I went to the ENT this morning. There is nothing wrong with my outer ear. He told me never to use acetic acid in my ear again. When I asked him why not, he said because it is acid. Come here and let me get out the ear wax or use...something I don't remember.

The tiny little bottle of acetic clearly says it is for ear wax removal. I still don't understand. I did not find a can of hydrochloric acid and decide on a whim to clean my ears with it.

He said it was quite possible that I had broken the cartilage in my nose. But, he will not x-ray because he has no intention of operating if he found it broken. Why? Because too much of my septum is gone already and my nose would collapse. That would be a novel look. He advised me to take an NSAID. But, I never take those. The pain in my nose is terrific, so I have to just ignore it. It's hard to wash my face!

I do like his conservative approach!

Did you ever have something removed from the curb that you were just using as a container? Has anyone ever broken the cartilage of the nose and what happened after you broke it?