  My brother was kind enough to come over for a visit to take away a bit of rubble. This rubble has been laying around since I moved into my new house about a year ago. Long overdue. I didn't know where the dumping ground is so I asked one of the guys from work for directions. Yesterday I went looking for the dumping ground, drove past it at least 3 times but eventually found it. As I drove back home this nagging little voice asked "double check the times they are open".
I ignored it since dumping grounds are usually open on sundays, right? Today we drove to the dumping ground with a full load just to find it closed. Big sign on the gate saying "closed on sundays and public holidays". When do most people do gardening? That's right, on sundays and public holidays. So we're sitting there, fresh out of ideas when we noticed there was a garbage truck inside loading up.
We approached the driver and asked if there's any other dumping grounds we can go to. This man was kind enough to say we could follow him. He then proceeds to drive at top speed. We thought we had lost him, but once again he was kind enough to wait for his. I was suitably impressed. As we are following the garbage truck we're pondering where this dumping ground can be since we kept on driving and driving and driving.
I saw a side of the suburbs I've never been to. We ended up at a huge dumping ground. A real one, not just the relatively nice ones with garbage containers to put your stuff in. This was a big heap in the middle of nowhere. Did I mention the smell? We made 3 trips there today and there's still at least another 2 loads left to be taken.
There's actually people that go to the dumping grounds to pick up stuff! I was amased. We saw at least one such person on each trip loading stuff up. One man's garbage is another man's treasure? My brother's son found a little solar charger for batteries that absolutely fascinated him. I told him to throw it away, dammit, it's garbage!
He just ignored me and came up with some lame story that he wanted the magnets on the inside. I took a well-deserved and prolonged shower this afternoon. 
