The Dump

I went to the dump the other day. I was helping someone move a bunch of construction garbage from their backyard. So the dump is actually really gross. We drove into the big dumping room which is basically a warehouse with a pit at the centre where everyone piles their garbage. They actually tell you to stay 6 feet away from the edge and just drop your stuff right there. They have a small bulldozer type thing that pushes everything down into the pit afterwards. There is also a giant bulldozer that drives around in the pit and moves stuff and crushes it. The whole place smelled terrible and the ground was coated in muddy garbage scum. Imagine living in your garbage can, that is what it was like, although I got used to the smell after a while which was kind of scary.

We're pulling all these pieces of wood and stuff out of the car and throwing it down and we have a huge pile going. There was a glass window near the bottom of the pile in the back of the car and when we tried to pull it out it was already cracked. The whole thing just crashed to pieces when we tried to lift it. There were bits of glass everywhere. Fortunately many pieces of sharp broken glass are not a problem in that place. No one said anything so we just threw all the pieces out of the car and onto the ground, breaking them even more. It was a mess.

Then we had some large flat sheets of wood at the bottom of the pile. They were really light. I was trying to throw them to the side because the pile we had right in front of us was starting to slide towards us. The sheets that I threw would almost glide for a few seconds when they were thrown and I was kind of worried that they might fly over the edge into the pit. Then that was exactly what happened. I threw a big sheet and the angle that I projected it at caused it to shoot up a bit and it drifted right down to the pit. It probably wouldn't have been a problem except for that the big bulldozer happened to be driving by right there at that moment. The sheet of wood hit the top of it. I was pretty nervous about it. One of the attendants came over quickly and told me to be more careful. I apologized and went back to emptying the car.

That was about everything that happened at the dump. Pretty uneventful now that I think about it. It would be a horrible place to work in my opinion.