I Guess We Don't Have Enough To Think About

[so lucky]

For the past couple of years, when DH walks Penny out the gravel road by our house, he often finds a bag of trash from a fast food place or deli. The snack or meal nearly eaten, always thrown in the same place on the side of the road. (He tries to keep the litter picked up off the road and right of way). Sometimes there is unopened or nearly empty bags of chips or cookies, along with the other items. We have often wondered who does this, and why. Which leads us to some funny and pathetic imaginings.

Today, he found a Walmart bag with a half eaten box of Little Debbie snack cakes, a half eaten bag of Fritos, a full bag of Ruffles potato chips, and a receipt. This person had bought other items, like broccoli and carrots, chicken nuggets, vitamins. So we can't help but wonder if they are a compulsive eater? Stuffing themselves with food before they get home to their mate? Maybe they are on a "diet" and cheat on it in private? Maybe they are sleep-driving? The food's usually left over night, but today's receipt was stamped about 1:30pm. I had concluded that it was someone that worked the midnight shift, so/and today's food trail was an anomaly.
Do you think I need something else to spend my time thinking about?

 

[digitS']

We are fascinated, all of us, by the implacable otherness of others. And we wish to penetrate by hypothesis, by daydream, by scientific investigation those leaden walls that encase the human spirit, that define it and guard it and hold it forever inaccessible. ~ Tim O'Brien​

 

[thistlebloom]

Hey So Lucky, we're as nosy as you. I think you should set up a camera and investigate this thoroughly!

 

[flowerbug]

we used to walk a lot more and i picked up a lot of trash over the years. i've found some really nice tools along the road. i have a ratchet wrench with a second chuck for smaller sockets. it has one tiny ding in it from falling on the road, but otherwise it's perfect. i pick up glass, metals, plastics for recycling, i leave paper for the worms to finish off. i do not pick up bottles full of chew spit or things that look "iffy". sometimes i'll open the bottles of chew spit and put them back down to get rinsed out for a while before i get them again. sometimes the roadside mowers make a mess of things before i can get back to them, that's the breaks.

nothing as interesting as this pattern you are seeing but i suspect you are spot on with the diet thing, perhaps their spouse is a diabetic and they don't want to bring temptations home but they can't resist them for themselves... personally, i find throwing away food to be a huge "sin", even junk food, i try not to buy it at all, Mom buys some and i'll eat some of it eventually, but i'm trying not to do that as much.

 

[Nyboy]

Lucky be grateful you find small bags of food that you can easily dispose of. I get old washing machines and broken furniture I have to pay to have hauled away.

 

[thistlebloom]

Consider it a form of forensics So Lucky.

 

[digitS']

World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.
~ Louis MacNiece​

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

Me? I'd be checking every day, looking for leftovers for the chickens, the dogs and ME!!!!

 

[Nyboy]

Really sad someone has to hide what they enjoy eating.

 

[canesisters]

My Mom used to make up stories about anyone and anything that she passed on a regular basis. She would tell me the complicated news about people up and down our road that she had never met.