Garbage Can

Who knew you could be so happy to see a garbage can!  But today after nearly 2 1/2 weeks in Oklahoma, we FINALLY got our city issued garbage can!!  YAHOO!!  I wish it looked as nice as the one in the picture above, but apparently when you live in a small town you don't get an actual "NEW" garbage can you get someone else's old one.  Yep, after hounding the city for the past 2 weeks about bringing one, I came home from the grocery store to find  a crusty, dirty old garbage can by our house.  Excellent.  I mean I know it's a garbage can and it's just going to get dirty anyway, but there is just something about knowing it's your own grossness as opposed to someone else's dirty gunk and dead bugs inside.  Sigh.  Oh well.  That's life in Hayseed County.  I guess I will just be happy that we finally got one.  Zack went in over 2 weeks ago and paid for the water/sewer/garbage and the lady said they would bring a can within a few days.  A few days passed, no can.  Zack went back in, and was met with a "they haven't brought that yet?"  Well fast forward another week and many more visits in to check on things and many more "they haven't brought that yets?"  We were getting frustrated.  I mean it's HOT here, really, really, hot, like 105 degrees hot and there our garbage is sitting out there in our backyard festering in the sun.  Gross. I mean there was an army of flies forming that would soon be big enough to carry our house away! So finally the woman drove by on Friday and stopped because Zack was outside and she said, "no garbage can still?" Of course not, she said the garbage guy brought one, but couldn't find our address and so he ended up dropping it off at someone else's house.  ARG.  How can you not find our address?  There are like 5 streets in our little po-dunk town.
Anyway, Zack went in on Monday to remind her to call the people.  And finally today we got our glorious used garbage can.  Now we can at least contain our sweltering stinky garbage!  Yipee.