[BogeyBoy]

This gets confusing every year - I always end up in a house with trash pick up and Christmas on the same day. (Don't ask me how that happens, just attribute it to living in multiple houses in TV.)

Again this year I am faced with the question - put the trash out on Christmas Day or leave it in the garage?

The newspaper clearly states "CH2M Hill Omi will be closed Friday and Jan 1. Customers who have trash pickup on Fridays will have trash pickup on the following Tuesday and Jan 5. For Friday recycling customers only, pickup will be on Saturday and Jan 2.

Why is this confusing? Because I have had trash pickup on Christmas Day in the past after having read the same message in the newspaper. The trucks cruised through the neighborhood in record time because no one had taken the trash to the curb after reading the Daily Sun.

I did call the phone number in TV phone book for "Sumter Sanitation, LLC". 352-748-0109. No one answered, I got a message that said they were CH2M Hill Omi.

Have the resident closest to your gate sit on a lawn chair Friday. (He/she better have an umbrella.) If he sees the garbage truck coming he can use a loudspeaker to make an announcement so everyone can rush their trash to the curb.

I think I need another cup of coffee, I've lost sleep over this trash issue, maybe I'll put mine at my neighbor's curb, then I won't look like the fool who can't read the paper. Or maybe he'll look like the genius with "insider" trash info!