Post by caveman on Dec 13, 2011 14:48:02 GMT -5
I thought I tell you all about my recent skip dipping find. Soaked and with thoughts of soup and stove in mind I walked past a skip in the pouring rain. Almost immediately I stopped to consider how bad the weather must be to make me do such an irresponsible and unethical thing. I went back and was delighted to see 4 double glazed units tucked into the side of the skip. I was sure they would be cracked but when I pulled them out they were fine. 2 are 6'x 3' and the other 2 are much smaller. I fetched the old 'Box'o'bolts' and drove back to the skip just as a van with 'Security' written on the side pulled up.
"Game over" I thought. Where I live there people have an attitude that seems to consider stuff in a skip to be rubbish unless someone else wants it and then they see it as their duty to stop the stuff being stolen! Begrudgery is all the rage when it comes to skip-dipping. The security bloke was no more interested in standing in the rain than I was so my spoof about building a green house was good enough and we both parted company, him with an excuse and me with the glass.
I will use them to brighten my shed, but I will wait until the rain stops before I start cutting holes.
"Game over" I thought. Where I live there people have an attitude that seems to consider stuff in a skip to be rubbish unless someone else wants it and then they see it as their duty to stop the stuff being stolen! Begrudgery is all the rage when it comes to skip-dipping. The security bloke was no more interested in standing in the rain than I was so my spoof about building a green house was good enough and we both parted company, him with an excuse and me with the glass.
I will use them to brighten my shed, but I will wait until the rain stops before I start cutting holes.