doodledee

currently you just leave your can up by your house and the garbage man will get out of his truck and come and get it. the idea being that it a) prevents people from having to haul it to the curb every week and b) prevents people from having to remember to haul the can back up to their house later that day and/or prevents lazy people from *never* hauling them back to their house. the new rules would allow you to put your can out by the street if you wanted to. there are upsides and downsides, including potential price pressure on the small indie garbagemen that serve the area. fd: i'm for the change. in other news, when i was a kid the garbage man would get out of his truck, walk up our driveway, and *open our garage door* to get the cans. didn't seem crazy at the time, but it sure does now.

http://www.mnsun.com/articles/2006/10/24/news/ed19citycouncil.txt