r/AskReddit • u/AuthorConfident9386 • 13h ago

Men, what’s one small, seemingly insignificant thing you’ve noticed that can be a telltale sign of the difference between a genuinely good man and a bad one?

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u/RandomMandarin 9h ago

If you think the people picking up your garbage aren't important, let them go on strike for a month. You'll change your mind soon enough.

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u/radlanrex 6h ago

Anyone who disrespects garbage workers is an idiot. First, those guys make good money, second they take away your garbage. WTF.

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u/RJ815 8h ago

Doesn't even take that long. Whenever a holiday coincides with (or sometimes even is one day adjacent) to a trash pick up day, waste management in my area skips until the next pickup about half a week later. Even just THAT is enough to cause logistics issues with overflowing trashcans or even issues with food rotting / flies if it's sitting in heat, rain, etc. I live in an area that got hit by a horrible hurricane some years back and debris pickup was like 3 months behind, and it was a nightmare for residents and businesses. There was money lost to damage but then a lot more towards not even being able to have normalcy for months.

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u/RollingMeteors 6h ago

people picking up your garbage aren't important,

u/pengweather is THE MOST fucking recognized username in the ENTIRE r/bayarea subreddit, by far, bar none.

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u/tvtb 3h ago

Society would break down if the tubes (sewer) and trucks carrying away your crap/trash stopped functioning. It would just build up around people's homes. People will try to bury some of it with mixed success. It'll attract animals. It will cause disease.