Still, they do try to keep things clean. There are thousands of people dressed in blue sanitation uniforms constantly sweeping & generally picking up after everyone. But in a city of 20 million people, it's almost impossible to stay on top of it all.
The other day, I awoke to an insistent banging on my apartment door. I crawled out of bed & I groggily opened it to find the apartment manager excitedly waving at the pile of trash outside in the hallway.
She demanded to know who had left it there. "不是我的 - bu2 shi4 wo3 de - It's not mine." She reproached me a few more times before she went banging on the rest of the doors on my floor. She must not have found the culprit, though. Two days later, the garbage is still there.
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So why would someone dump trash inside the building in-which-they-live??! Is it a pain to take it out in some way?
Anyway, you have to come clean--why did she suspect you first?! :)
My thoughts exactly. Why do they dump trash where they live? Don't know. I was the accused because the garbage heap was in front of my apartment door. You can see my open door to the left of the photo.
Funny, here in Boston, the Chinese people often spit on the sidewalk. As a contrast, when I visited Tokyo, you could eat off the sidewalks. No garbage ANYWHERE!!!!
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