Comments on: Certified Non-Geniuses Tackle Environmental Hazards http://www.geezersisters.com/failure/certified-non-geniuses-tackle-environmental-hazards Austin, Texas novelist Ruth Pennebaker, who's old enough to call herself "fabulous," writes about family, politics, marriage, friendship, feminism, aging and whatever else occurs to her. Her latest novel, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakthrough, was published by Berkley in January 2011. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ruthpennebaker http://www.geezersisters.com/failure/certified-non-geniuses-tackle-environmental-hazards/comment-page-1#comment-441 ruthpennebaker Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:51:56 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=390#comment-441 Our recycling is gone -- finally.  I kept peeking out the window, knowing they'd leave it once again.  That would be embarrassing, even for people of very low standards, like my husband and me.  But now, we can hold up our heads. Our recycling is gone — finally.  I kept peeking out the window, knowing they’d leave it once again.  That would be embarrassing, even for people of very low standards, like my husband and me.  But now, we can hold up our heads.

]]> By: Carol Flake Chapman http://www.geezersisters.com/failure/certified-non-geniuses-tackle-environmental-hazards/comment-page-1#comment-433 Carol Flake Chapman Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:28:40 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=390#comment-433 I find that putting out recycling is like hanging up laundry. These are healthy for the earth. But there are no secrets left for the neighbors. Unhealthy drinking habits? A splurge at Victoria's Secret? Should be none of their beeswax.  I find that putting out recycling is like hanging up laundry. These are healthy for the earth. But there are no secrets left for the neighbors. Unhealthy drinking habits? A splurge at Victoria’s Secret? Should be none of their beeswax. 

]]> By: Cancer Bitch http://www.geezersisters.com/failure/certified-non-geniuses-tackle-environmental-hazards/comment-page-1#comment-432 Cancer Bitch Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:47:27 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=390#comment-432 strange synchronicity. we've been having problems w/ our recycling, too. the day of pickup has been a closely guarded secret here. the alderman wouldn't tell us, and streets and sanitation wouldn't answer the phone. we were so excited yesterday when they finally came to get it and we could start filling it up again. we'd been putting our boxes and such in other people's cans. strange synchronicity. we’ve been having problems w/ our recycling, too. the day of pickup has been a closely guarded secret here. the alderman wouldn’t tell us, and streets and sanitation wouldn’t answer the phone. we were so excited yesterday when they finally came to get it and we could start filling it up again. we’d been putting our boxes and such in other people’s cans.

]]> By: Julie Buffaloe-Yoder http://www.geezersisters.com/failure/certified-non-geniuses-tackle-environmental-hazards/comment-page-1#comment-431 Julie Buffaloe-Yoder Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:08:06 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=390#comment-431 You always make me laugh so hard!  I never won a genius award, not even a Who's Who or a "most likely to succeed."  But I was class clown.  Does that count? You always make me laugh so hard!  I never won a genius award, not even a Who’s Who or a “most likely to succeed.”  But I was class clown.  Does that count?

]]> By: pajamadeen http://www.geezersisters.com/failure/certified-non-geniuses-tackle-environmental-hazards/comment-page-1#comment-430 pajamadeen Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:56:28 +0000 http://www.geezersisters.com/?p=390#comment-430 There's something to be said for living in the middle of nowhere in Tiny Town.  Trash pickup is on Wednesdays.  Usually late morning.  But if they swing by early, they thoughtfully stop their truck outside our house and honk, so we can run out tardily with the trash.  (The "sanitation workers" seem to enjoy watching us run.  They have huge grins on their faces as they watch us run.  Well, waddle.) There is no recycling here, despite my efforts several years ago to get that going.  So out it all goes into the old-fashioned trash.  Deceased printers?  No problem.  Dead phones?  No problem.  If it doesn't fit in the trash, you leave the debris laying on the ground in the general vicinity of the trash cans.  In a pinch, there is always good old-fashioned burning.  a Rhodes Scholarship reject There’s something to be said for living in the middle of nowhere in Tiny Town.  Trash pickup is on Wednesdays.  Usually late morning.  But if they swing by early, they thoughtfully stop their truck outside our house and honk, so we can run out tardily with the trash.  (The “sanitation workers” seem to enjoy watching us run.  They have huge grins on their faces as they watch us run.  Well, waddle.)

There is no recycling here, despite my efforts several years ago to get that going.  So out it all goes into the old-fashioned trash.  Deceased printers?  No problem.  Dead phones?  No problem.  If it doesn’t fit in the trash, you leave the debris laying on the ground in the general vicinity of the trash cans. 

In a pinch, there is always good old-fashioned burning. 

a Rhodes Scholarship reject

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