So last night after I got home from work, M was working on assembling our bed and I was eating dinner. He went out to take the trash, and noticed something weird. Earlier, he had put out a couple bags of trash behind the trash can on the curb, since today is pickup day. Well when he went back out, the bags he had put out earlier were gone! Someone took our trash! ok, weird…so he checked back a little later, and the bag he just put out was gone too!! wtf? So we decided to test it–we put one more bag out on the curb, then went upstairs with the light off to watch out the window and see if someone would come over and take it. We waited about 5 minutes but nothing happened, so we figured it was just neighborhood oddness and went to bed.

This morning M went to work and the bag was still there. But after I had taken a shower and went to leave for work, the last bag we’d put out was gone too! arggg! Why the heck are people taking our trash? M said maybe it’s just the trash people going around getting stuff off the curb…like maybe we’re not supposed to put anything on the curb? But some of our neighbors had non-bagged stuff out on their curbs and no one had taken that stuff!

My first reaction was to get super paranoid, like holy crap are they trying to snoop and steal our identity or something? eek! So we’re not throwing anything personal away until we buy a shredder, just in case. It’s just the oddest thing–who goes around taking trash bags off someone else’s curb? I mean, what if it had been *actual* trash–like nasty food scraps and gross things? Is someone going through our stuff?

M said we should rig it and put the dog poop in there once we bring the dogs over, haha. I bet the culprit would leave our trash alone after that! I’ve just never heard of the trash pickup people doing pre-pickup the night before, and this was late last night around 10 - 10:30. Any ideas what could be going on?

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