A lil late night dumpster diving?  

secret_lade 49F
14388 posts
11/9/2020 10:25 pm
A lil late night dumpster diving?


Now that it's dark by 5:30 at night....

I hate this time of year when the days are so short. It's still kind of dark when I go to work, it's already starting to get dark when I leave work, I feel like I just can't manage to get any kind of daylight in.

Not good for the that's afraid of the dark.

I realized tonight that I'd forgotten to get coffee after work today, so I decided to make a quick trip to the store...

I forward to that morning cup of coffee!

So, I headed down the stairs and the door to to my car. I was part way there when I heard noises coming from my right... Rustling noises.

Glancing over, they were coming from around the dumpster area, an area that's lit but only partially.

Thinking it was only in my imagination, I closed the distance to my car and had my hand on the handle when I heard the noise again.

WTF?!?

Fear set in and I hurried into my car and locked the door before I turned to .

Still nothing...

This time I knew I heard something.

From the back side of the dumpster I ended up seeing a form emerge from the darkness.... Scared the shit right of .

It was the downstairs neighbor from across the hall.

I looked around to see if she was walking her and asked myself why in the hell she'd be walking her all the way over there by the dumpsters, in the dark.

No dog.

And, she kind of just stood over there, looking in my direction, then slowly headed to the door.

That's when it ....

She was going through the stuff in the dumpster. The rustling noises I'd heard were the sounds of her sifting through the contents of the dumpster.

Egads...

Not sure what she was after, but that just seems wrong all the way around.

secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/11/2020 2:54 pm

    Quoting  :

Truth! I've seen it first hand with some of my new hires....


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/11/2020 3:42 am

    Quoting SirlickalotNM:
    I went digging in my own trash before. I couldn't find something I was sure I had. Went threw my trash twice before I found it. Another time I wanted to return something, I thought the receipt was in the trash. Would I jump in a dumpster, maybe, depends what was in there.
There are 80 apartments in my complex, all of which throw their trash in these dumpsters. You would have to give me an impenetrable hazmat suit to jump into one of those dumpsters in the darkness. Yikes.... Who knows what all goes on in those apartments.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/10/2020 9:31 pm

    Quoting lindoboy100:
    Egads is a good word!

    Maybe she'd lost something important and was too ashamed to go rifling through the garbage in daylight?

    But aye, a bit creepy.......
It scared me to see her appear out of nowhere after I had been looking over there, and she was acting so sketchy. I only hope she was looking for something she lost.


SirlickalotNM 61M  
147 posts
11/10/2020 9:18 pm

I went digging in my own trash before. I couldn't find something I was sure I had. Went threw my trash twice before I found it. Another time I wanted to return something, I thought the receipt was in the trash. Would I jump in a dumpster, maybe, depends what was in there.


lindoboy100 61M
23969 posts
11/10/2020 4:20 pm

Egads is a good word!

Maybe she'd lost something important and was too ashamed to go rifling through the garbage in daylight?

But aye, a bit creepy.......


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/10/2020 2:36 pm

Yikes! I hope not! Lol


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/10/2020 2:34 pm

    Quoting mc_justmc:
    Any time someone is dumpster diving in the dark, whether for food or cc receipts, it's not a good thing. The junk collectors/recyclers do that in the daylight.
That's what I was thinking... And she was acting sketchy about it. I immediately went to identify theft conclusions.... Looking for doc's with account numbers.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/10/2020 2:32 pm

    Quoting WyoCowboy7751:
    I'll Admit ; I've done that a time or two !! Misplaced something, tore the house too shreds and HOPED I did not accidentally Throw It Away
Thankfully, I've never had to do that. I'm not saying it may never happen, but so far so good!


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/10/2020 2:29 pm

    Quoting  :

Hopefully you're right, and that's what happened. I've never noticed her do this before.... It was a little surprising.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/10/2020 2:26 pm

    Quoting  :

Especially now with all the COVID stuff.....


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/10/2020 2:12 pm

    Quoting citizen4722:
    Was it her own dumpster she was going through or somebody else's? Is your neighbour struggling money wise? I know a lot of people are in this day and age
It's the complex dumpster.... Everyone throws their trash there. I don't think she's struggling.... But you never know.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/10/2020 2:10 pm

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I was thinking she was identity theft..... But you're bringing up a valid point too. It is a sad state of affairs, either way.


secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
11/10/2020 2:07 pm

    Quoting MrWrong4RghtNow:
    I’m sensing a good horror movie out of this: My Neighbor is A Were-Raccoon.
    I can smell the streaming rights from Netflix now.
I'll be rich!!!! Lol


MrWrong4RghtNow 57M
2439 posts
11/10/2020 1:00 pm

I’m sensing a good horror movie out of this: My Neighbor is A Were-Raccoon.
I can smell the streaming rights from Netflix now.

My name is MrWrong and I approved this comment


citizen4722 66M  
74582 posts
11/10/2020 8:44 am

Was it her own dumpster she was going through or somebody else's? Is your neighbour struggling money wise? I know a lot of people are in this day and age


WyoCowboy7751 70M
2537 posts
11/10/2020 5:25 am

I'll Admit ; I've done that a time or two !! Misplaced something, tore the house too shreds and HOPED I did not accidentally Throw It Away


mc_justmc 63M

11/10/2020 4:05 am

Any time someone is dumpster diving in the dark, whether for food or cc receipts, it's not a good thing. The junk collectors/recyclers do that in the daylight.


KX450F2016 55M
193 posts
11/10/2020 4:00 am

Looking for a snack maybe? LOL


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