Adventures in Dumpster Diving

Last night I found myself in a rather unpredictable situation. I had received several checks for payments from a few people and set them aside while I was cleaning my place. A few hours later, I started thinking that I should go check on the checks to see if they were really still there... and surprise, surprise... I couldn't find them... anywhere... even after I looked for them everywhere... more than once.

And then.... reality hit.

They were somewhere floating around in the dumpster in the garage of my apartment building.

Oh boy.

Do I have the people write replacement checks... or... do I go dumpster diving?

I just couldn't face admitting I threw out the checks with the trash, so I went dumpster diving. Imagine me, fishing through a dumpster with trash from a huge apartment building. And, of course, I was one of the bad tenants who didn't tie the top of her trash bag before I threw it down the trash chute. So, of course my trash was scattered across the dumpster.

Luckily, it didn't take me very long to find the checks, which were still nicely enclosed in the paper they were sent with.

Sometimes in life, a job may stink, and you really don't want to do it... at all... but you may have to jump in with both feet and sort through the trash to find the prize... or really the thing you threw away in the first place.