Charlotte, or as Lisa likes to often refer to her as, “Jim Jr.”, is literally my partner in crime.
No – we are not Bonnie and Clyde going on a murderous rampage – but we do go out and have fun.
Has anyone reading this heard Arlo Guthrie Jr performing “Alice’s Restaurant Massacre”? If not – Jeez ….. listen to it sometime while driving or just sitting around. Yes, it’s a song, but it’s also a story. The reason I say listen to it while driving is that it’s about 20 minutes long +/- and it’s very entertaining. You have to really listen to it to get the humor.
I especially like the part where he’s talking about having a load of garbage and he was at the top of a cliff going to unload this garbage and down below he saw another pile of garbage. And he decided that one big pile was better than two little piles and rather than bring that pile up he decided to throw his pile down.
That was a little prelude to the point of this post.
It was Easter weekend in 2022 and The Sumstines had driven to Florida to stay at KittysBeachEscape. We were in the family van and it was a nice trip there.
BUT … when we got there – there was a problem. We weren’t sure what the cause was at first, but the previous couple of stays hadn’t taken out the trash to the curb. Turns out our signage was wrong and we had written the wrong days of the week to take the trash to the curb.
OOPS !!!
A plethora of garbage. While it had been put into the kitchen white trash bags – it was still garbage.
So Lisa and I went off to Lowes and got some contractor bags and gloves and packed up the garbage into 9 contractor bags.
We called around the area and we found a dump and loaded the bags of garbage into our van and took off to the dump.
Problem was, this dump didn’t take walk-ins. It was a site for commercial trash trucks.
DANG IT – the lady on the phone didn’t say that.
It’s now 4:30 on Friday of Easter weekend and we had no place to put the garbage.
The Kissimmee area of Florida has a lot of construction going on and so that night I scouted out the perfect secret ninja dumpster location.
I asked Charlotte, “Charlotte, do you want to go break the law with me about 4:o’clock in the morning?”
Without hesitation, “Sure, what are we doing?”
I explained the situation and while she agreed to go with me, she seemed a bit disappointed that this “crime” was kind of pedestrian in nature.
But at 3:50am I woke her up, and off we went. Found a dumpster that I had scouted earlier and after disposing of our 9 contractor bags of garbage, went back home and went back to bed.
….. “And didn’t get up until the next morning …”
*Side Note 1 – that’s from the song – tell me you listened to it.
Now, as we go somewhere without each other, instead of saying “Good-Bye”, we’ll say, “Don’t break the law without me”.
And I don’t.
We’ve always said that Charlotte is the party and Kate is the party police.
Charlotte is always up for the shenanigans.
We go out with things to do.
We go out with a purpose.
And then I found a 1000 pack of googly eyes for $7.00
…. And we have a lot of fun ……
$7.00 well spent.
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