My day job has me driving a route to 30-50 homes to scoop up dog poop. That's my ideal route: one that I'm being paid to drive anyway, and which is loaded with people who by definition have more $$ than sense!
Some of my neighborhood are VERY high end... today I scooped the house next door to the house next door to Mark Cuban. Today I also scooped Don Henley's house. (he has a Cadillac SUV, but no there's deadhead sticker on it...
) I scooped a couple doors down from Ross Perot and I drove past Troy Aikman's house as well as Jerry Jones' house.
All this to say that those neighborhoods aren't worth DIDDLY to a scrapper. Every once in a great while they'll put out a discard r two that is something that I couldn't afford to buy new: a $2600 exercise bike that only needed a loose wire reconnected, a VERY nice brass fireplace set that I use in my house.
The best hoods are the young busy yuppies with debt up the yingyang and too much junk that they're trying to keep up with the Joneses. Those people throw away EVERYTHING!
The best hoods in DFW, though are the slightly upper middle class workaday folks just like me. THey don't know about scrap. They just leave broken appliances & water heaters & such in the alley.
And as JJinLV just said: when SMU lets out for the summer it's a FIELD DAY on everything and anything!
Originally Posted by auminer
My day job has me driving a route to 30-50 homes to scoop up dog poop. That's my ideal route: one that I'm being paid to drive anyway, and which is loaded with people who by definition have more $$ than sense!
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