[fatlazyless]

If you are not familiar with the layout of the picking area at the Meredith Transfer Station here's the modus operandi:

For many, many, many, many years, the picking area was very simply a small pile of miscellaneous junk lawnmowers, bicycles, waterpumps, hotwater heaters, broken wheel barrows, and numerous other junk items. It would start out as a small pile, and grow and grow and grow into a large pile, until someone in the transfer station management decided that it was time to use the big front-end loader to pile it all into a large dumpster and get the dumpster removed.

One very sad day about 18-months to 2-years ago, the above described process was changed to eliminate dump picking. There-after, a large dumpster was always on site, and every single day, all of that day's unloaded junk got sorted away into aluminum-steel-etcetera-and the bulk of the junk was loaded into a six foot tall dumpster on a daily basis, like I already said. "No Dump Picking Allowed" was the new massage dictated by the new signs!

Boo-hoo......what a sad day that was....and I had been thinking about remodeling the kitchen and bathroom.....but no more...what with this new policy! Definately.....not being able to go dump picking is downright un-American!

Hey...here's a thought....maybe the town could hold a yearly lottery for a small number...maybe ten....of dump picking permits.....like right after the 11-pm show-of-hands voting at the annual Meredith town meeting held on the first Tuesday night in March. You know something, holding a dump picking permit lottery after the annual voting would most likely get a lot more residents to actually show up and vote! That just might work out real good like that!