An excellent example of how you can be right while everyone else is wrong:
My trash runs on a weekly cadence, but recycling is on a two week cadence. (Almost) everyone on my street put their recycling out today. It wasn't out yesterday. Due to freezing rain the previous week, recycling and trash was skipped. The garbage company called and informed everyone that things would resume the regular schedule and just take double loads.
So why did so many people get this wrong? I see a couple things:
- People mistake the nuance of the language and hear what they want to hear. Instead of "next pick-up" they hear "next week".
- It's cheap to move your recycling back out, and the benefit of having an empty recycling container in the unlikely case they do your recycling outweighs the cost
- If you see others put their recycling out, you get mixed signals, and it becomes your recall versus the evidence in front of you. If you didn't know the schedule, a rationale person would deduce that it was a recycling day
- Putting your recycling out can be a form of protest over the fact they didn't do it the previous week and weren't going to do it this week. "But look at all this recycling that I have now!"
Anyways, I still think the universe is subdividing and not expanding, or rather, it appears to be expanding because it's actually subdividing, and I drew a picture to demonstrate. Hah! Bet you didn't see that coming.
Community Health Advocate
3moThis is awesome! Spanish language version?