Hauling Secrets

Not every hauler cares about what they throw into the backs of their trucks. We try to resist that sort of overbored, clockwatching way of working so typical of low wage labor. But some days, or some jobs, there just isn’t time to sneak a look into the myterious old suitcase you’ve just set on its way to the landfill.

And some mornings we’ll have to dump a truck that was filled by the crew from the previous day. We’ll get to the back of the truck, open the doors, and out will spill their leftovers - a complete surprise that for whatever reason they didn’t have the chance or the energy to deal with.

A complete surprise like these:

Artfully rendered in pencil and watercolor during the artist’s “marine love” period. Once doomed to the oblivion of the landfill, now preserved for near-eternity here on the internet.

And the world is about the same for it.