Amy and I went diving again tonight on the Bowdoin campus. We didn't find any furniture as the bin had recently been emptied. However, we did find a lot of house hold items, food, and other goodies such as full containers of laundry detergent (which I am considering donating to the community center), two unopened boxes of Ritz crackers, cocoa mix, cleaning products, boxes of tea and candy. A brand new Polo shirt. An unopened package of 200 count cotton sheets. A mirror. Hair products, lotions, rollers, and face wash. Three throwing discs. An iPod charger and docking station. New energy efficient light bulbs. But the best thing we found would have to be the "sexy brick"! I found it wrapped in an old flannel shirt and duct tape. Weird.
Amy was the look out tonight and I was the diver. I had been in the dumpster for about 10 mins. collecting things in cardboard boxes and passing them over the top to Amy. Suddenly she said in a hushed but urgent voice "Kristin! Kristin! There's some dude over there watching us!" I lifted my head far enough out of the bin to see someone lurking in the shadows not too far away. It was a campus security guard. As I was hoisting myself out of the dumpster I could see the guy walking fast toward Amy. He yelled for her to put the box of items she was carrying back into the dumpster! I hopped out and walked over to them. He ordered us again to put everything back. We refused. Actually, I think Amy said "Are you serious right now? You want us to put all this back!?! No!!". Another man walked out of the shadows and insisted that we give him our names and other personal information. He insisted that I give him my full name, birth date, and the two middle digits of my SS#. WTF!?!?!? When I asked him if he was going to do a check on me he said "no" but I suspected he would so I told him where I work and live, just to make it a little easier for him. Ha!! I am not at all ashamed of what I do! And I have a pretty good reputation within the area because of the work I do for the Coastal Journal and the community/volunteer work I do as part of church. So I have no problem giving my name. What I do have a problem with is the lack of respect from this man while he was speaking to me. He accused me, more then once, of being dishonest and giving him a false name...(as if you can make up a last name like Nawrocki! Ha!). But I also have reason to believe that he is going to check up on me, which means that he had the nerve to lie to me after accusing me of lying! Rude! Just because I am a dumpster diver doesn't mean I'm a pathetic human being! I deserve respect just as much as the next person.....sorry, I am rambling now. I'm just angry at the absurdity of these two men ordering us to put back the unopened, unused items that we were taking, so that they can sit in a landfill and be wasted!
Blah....So anyway, after much arguing they agreed to let us leave with our treasures, if we agreed not to come back.
When we got home we blew up balloons for our friend Ron's birthday, which is tomorrow. The idea is to fill his car full of balloons while he is in work tomorrow and then have him come over to our place (after he is done getting rid of all the balloons, of course! Mwhahaha!) for some cake and ice cream! Yay!!!
Our kitchen if full of balloons! It's kind of ridiculous but makes for fun time and great photos!
(notice sexy brick!)
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