The City of Akron and my Trash Can

Crap. First off I had typed this long story with pictures and everything and while working on it erased it. So, here goes again.

A few weeks back the City of Akron gave us our new trashcans. (You know, the type the rich folks in the suburbs use) No more trashbags on the curbs for us! I'm sure this is breaking the hearts of The Trash People. (Read that, it's one of my favorite entries)

So I'm dropping my son off to school and we see the trash truck coming down the street. So I drop him off and come back home to find my trash can and mailbox entangled in a way that just isn't right for a mail box.

Stupid me, I'm thinking. "Well, I'll go see what the note says on my door". Of course, much to my unamazement of course there was no note on the door. Oh, and thank you paperboy for making sure you only missed the BIG puddle by mere inches. After all, that whole maybe 20 feet from me driveway to the porch is way to much to maybe, Oh I don't know, TOSS THE PAPER UP THERE!

So I call the City of Akrons new tax funded 311 phone system from my home phone. (Since it's local you can't call from a cell phone)

So the first person says why don't you fill out a claim fix it and the city will reimburse me. Yeah right, and this pigs will fly out of my butt next Tuesday.

So I tell her, well you guys broke it, so you guys need to fix it.

So now I get switched over to the sanatation department.

(At this time I saving this as a draft so I can eat lunch and will finish this post later)

O.K. I'm back. So the sanitation department says he'll send the foreman around and they'll get back to me. So sure as crap the foreman doesn't show up until I call back again then amazingly, "He's on his way now"

So the foreman I guess takes a look at it must evidently be as smart as I am because he agrees that the mailbox is knocked down.

I get a call back from the sanitation department saying the will somebody out to fix it. So guess what, the next day I have to call them again since no one showed up.

Finally the day after that they send out some brain whiz who decides putting it back in the hole good enough that a bird landing on it could knock it over was good enough.

At this point I'm so irritated it's time to bring in the big guns.

So I look up my councilman and hopefully he is somebody I voted for.

Enter Mr. Kilby. He tells me he just had an incident with the santation department himself. They are supposed to still pick up tires but didn't pick up the ones he left out. So he called the sanitation department and they told him they would come and get them. He didn't pull the "I'm the councilman card" to see if they would do it.

Well, it must have been that same foreman because they didn't show up to pick up his tires either.

But wait, there's more. So now he comes by the next day with the Parks department. Now only in the city of Akron, is the Parks department responsible for taking care of the devil strip. (Look it up, I think it's an Ohio thing)

So he calls me yesterday to see if they came out and fixed it yet. Well, as of today my mailbox still looks like it does in the picture above.

It's supposed to be fixed sometime this week. So now we wait.........