Trashcan-gate
The following has nothing to do with wine.

I went to throw out the recycling the other day and found a large cardboard box in the recycling bin. Because of it, there was no more room in the bin, so I took it out. It was empty except for some of those air-pack things they use instead of the hated "peanuts." I took the air-packs out and pierced them, then found a receipt in the bottom of the box. It had our neighbor's name on it. They dumped their box in our trash. What makes it more insidious is that they went to the trouble of tearing off their name on the mailing label on the outside of the box. I went inside and told my wife.

Now what to do?
(a) Go for moral superiority and do nothing.
(b) Return the box to them with the invoice stuck to it.
(c) Talk to them either nicely or not nicely

I was going for plan (b), but the housekeeper broke down the box and threw it in the recycling before I got a chance. My wife saw the neighbor on the street and talked to them very nicely. The bat has been taken out of my hands, but did I do the right thing by turning them in to the fuzz in the first place?
- posted by Jeff Smith @ 11:55 AM