I can’t at the moment decide how petty I am. I put boxes and bags outside my house (on the side of my property not on the street). The pile is well-labeled that it is for Big Brother/Big Sister. Unfortunately, Big Brother’s truck was full today, so they have to come back another time.

I understand BB/BS’s problem. It’s a bit frustrating for me, since I can’t trust the weather to leave so many things outside. But, what can you do? No big deal.

What I feel might be petty, however is my reaction to someone in my neighborhood. Throughout the day, a chick has been coming by and taking a few of the boxes and bags for herself. I’m giving the stuff to charity, so I can’t really mind someone removing the middleman, right?

(I know it’s a chick, because that is the small bit I understood from my old Portuguese neighbors who witnessed two of the takings. For one the old man got her to stop, and for the other, I think, his wife interceded to say it’s cool, since I’m getting rid of the stuff anyway. I don’t have the language necessary to explain why from my tax deduction point of view and the fact I have already made arrangements with BB/BS it’s not exactly the same. Whatever.)

But, I was just walking back from the laundromat, and the bag and box-taking chick had piled the three bags she took (now each half-full) on her curb for trash pickup. Apparently, based on the fact that the bags had been completely full and now were half, there were some items that met her taste or standards. The rest to her is trash. I guess the household stuff in boxes is her treasure, since that hasn’t hit the street (yet).

Fuck you, bitch, if you are going to steal from a charity, at least have the courtesy to give the shit you don’t want back to them.

Now, I’m trying to figure out what signage might convince her or others to do that without allowing them to strew my shit all over or whether I should just shrug and let it go.

I gotta get out of this place.