Thursday 2 October 2008

10-02-08:Chapter 9

A very crazy thing happened last evening, almost suprising. Tim and I were taking our trash out on our way to go buy some movies at a store down the street. We had just set it out on the curb when this lady hauling a little cart was passing by. As soon as we had set the bags down she jumped on it and was already searching through the bags. I was so suprised by this I couldn't help but give her a nasty look like what do you think your doing?! My first thought was maybe she was looking for recyclables, but then I realized they don't recycle here. Then it dawned on me that this lady was either looking for dinner, or she was searching for our documents to see what she could get. I just looked at Tim and he didn't seem to be bothered one bit. As soon as we were out of hearing distance from the her, I asked "is that lady seriously searching through our garbage? In front of us!" he answered in a matter-of-fact kind of way(like I was supposed to know this) That he was warned people go through everyone's garbage, and we were supposed to shred any documents that would have our s.s.# or anything on them. Of course as we were on our way in, I noticed the garbage bags had been taken. At least it was only our kitchen garbage, so I am certain all that was in there was rotten food and trash...
Note to self: Shred all documents, asians are crazy.

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