when we found toys in the trash

I forgot to mention this yesterday!

C, Kevin and I were taking trash out at work yesterday. C and I were up on the back dock getting it all in order and Kevin was outside, pulling it off the dock and putting it in our dumpster.

Kevin said “There’s an elbow in here!” And C and I freaked out a bit, because we’re always worried we’re going to find a dead body in our dumpster one day… it’s on the end of the buildings so it’s an easy target for people to dump stuff in. Ever since our last dumpster suddenly developed a horrible, horrible stench (so bad we called the company and had them bring us a new one) we’ve been worried someone’s going to use it as a hiding place for a body! LOL.

So we both started going, “An elbow!! OMG” And Kevin said NO not an ELBOW. So I jumped down and went over and looked, and he hadn’t said elbow at all, he had said ELMO.

Someone had dumped a whole toy chest into our dumpster. A LOT of toys, most in good condition, it looked like. A tickle-me-elmo, a chessboard, a monopoly game (the money was everywhere), Barbies, stuffed animals, a really scary clown. That was all we could see through the side door. Kevin found what looked like a gamecube disc with question marks printed on it on the ground – he took it home and tried to use it but it was too scratched up.

Anyway, it just seemed weird to us. Why throw away all those perfectly good toys? Why not donate them? Was there something wrong with them? Was there a sad reason behind this? A creepy reason? We thought about pulling them out and taking them to Goodwill, but we were worried they were diseased or something.

Yeah, we’re a bit paranoid at work.