embarrassing but TRUE!
Feb. 23rd, 2022 05:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marcicatI have now (more) fully examined the recycling dumpster situation, and shamefacedly retract my previous excitement and befuddlement at the 'light in the dumpster' conundrum. It's not a light; it's SCIENCE!
See, every time I opened up the little slide-y door on the side of the dumpster and tossed in the recycling, I thought, 'Wow, I can see everything! It's all lit up!' And so I thought, 'If there's a light in a closed dumpster, it must be coming from within the dumpster itself!'
But it is not! To differentiate it from the trash dumpster, the recycling dumpster has a YELLOW LID. And it turns out the yellow lid lets in a lot more light than the standard black lids, which seems So Super Obvious now that I am typing it out, but absolutely did not occur to me for the last eight months that we've lived here.
ANYWAY in conclusion, colors are neat, and being wrong on the internet is a little embarrassing, but it did give me something to write about today.
See, every time I opened up the little slide-y door on the side of the dumpster and tossed in the recycling, I thought, 'Wow, I can see everything! It's all lit up!' And so I thought, 'If there's a light in a closed dumpster, it must be coming from within the dumpster itself!'
But it is not! To differentiate it from the trash dumpster, the recycling dumpster has a YELLOW LID. And it turns out the yellow lid lets in a lot more light than the standard black lids, which seems So Super Obvious now that I am typing it out, but absolutely did not occur to me for the last eight months that we've lived here.
ANYWAY in conclusion, colors are neat, and being wrong on the internet is a little embarrassing, but it did give me something to write about today.
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Date: 2022-02-23 08:49 pm (UTC)