Weekends are often for yard work and house projects... even though the entire notion of "weekends" is somewhat of a misnomer for the self-employed.
And so, I did a lot of pruning of trees and cutting back of various bushes and shrubbery that have been in need of attendance for a long time. It was work that needed doing because our insurance company has been saying that there will be major premium increases if certain "deferred maintenance issues" are not attended to before the next policy renewal date.
It's just one of the many ways in which modern life is screwing all of us, financially speaking.
After a while, the back of the truck was full and so it became time to go off to the local dump where we can take our yard waste, which is subsequently turned into compost that's sold back to the public.
All in all it's a pretty good deal for the city, I guess, because we pay to dump off our garden clippings and branches which they then process and subsequently turn around and sell the composted waste back to people at a profit.
Anyway it turned out that dumping things at the dump was not as simple as expected!
You see, under normal circumstances you're supposed to "weigh in" and "weigh out" with your vehicle on big commercial scales and they give you a little card and measure the difference in the weight between your arrival and your departure.
So what happens when one of the scales breaks and is no longer available?
That's what happened today. And what happened was that the goes in scale was broken and so they had to use the going out scale to both measure people coming in and people coming out... which, of course, resulted in an extremely long tailback, almost all the way out to the county road.
All in all, I spent about 45 minutes just sitting in line, awaiting my turn.
Had I known it was going to be such a slow process I suppose I would have just waited till Tuesday (they are closed on Mondays) to dump off my load but since I was well down the access road and "fenced in" by other customers behind me by the time I discovered that there was an equipment failure up ahead, not just busy times.
It was just another one of those examples of "things are seldom as expected" or else — as we like to say around our house — "Mercury is in the microwave" because that tends to be the source of many technical issues.
Yeah, the real thing is "Mercury Retrograde," if you believe in woo-woo stuff having an impact on our world. I do believe it is "real," perhaps not for woo-woo reasons, but because a bunch of people who do believe in it are on edge and thus more likely to cause incidents. A self-fulfilling prophecy, as it were.
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