Trashy

Here's exactly what I mean when I refer to the "trashy-ass Section 8 apartment complex" across the street from my house. This huge pile of garbage was strown all across the yard of the complex this morning. It included a mattress and box springs, random empty boxes, bottles, hangers, diapers and clothes. None of it had any value at all. I have no idea why it was dumped there but I have a few ideas.

1. Somebody didn't pay their rent and got evicted. But why would the landlord throw all of this junk on the front yard? He's going to have to clean it up sooner or later.

2. Wife or girlfriend got mad at husband or boyfriend and dumped all of his crap out of the window. Possible, but the windows are too small to stuff a mattress through.

3. Tennent decided to move out in the middle of the night and just left all his unwanted crap on the yard of the apartment. This is probably the most likely explanation, but why would you go to the trouble of hauling all of this junk outside the apartment if you never plan to come back?

I feel sorry for poor people who have to live in crappy apartment complexes like this. But poor people are sometimes are pretty sorry themselves. I used to rent a house from this woman who owned about 30 rent houses, most of them in poor neighborhoods in Dallas. She charged really reasonable rent and most of her houses were pretty nice. But she said that many of her tennents would completely trash the houses. And for some reason, when they left, they'd take everything they no longer wanted, including rotting garbage and animal waste, and dump it in a pile on the living room floor.