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Wave back? I make sure to dump my bucket in front of them, honk my airhorn, and stop to chat with them as long as their parents are around and cool with it. Kids fucking love garbage men, and it makes my day 100% better if I can make a kid's day by being an awesome garbage man for them.

In 10 years they'll learn to hate me, but when they're young, kids make garbage men feel like celebrities with the amount of excitement they bring to trash day lol

Garbage man, what is the greatest hockey team?

Why i'm glad you asked, the only correct answer is the Stanley Cup winning Pittsburgh Penguins.

So this AMA isn't getting a ton of momentum, but I'd still like to thank everyone for the questions and make a PSA if possible.

Please be careful around garbage men. In the past 12 months, 5 workers have been hit by cars- none of the cars stopped. Only one resulted in a lost time injury, thankfully. It's a dangerous industry, and we know you're in a rush to get where you're going, but please try to remember that if a garbage truck is stopped, there is likely a human being outside of the truck focusing on garbage and not you.

We review fatalities every week in this industry. Use common sense when around a garbage truck, we see you before you see us 9 times out of 10, but that one time out of 10 we don't can get someone killed.

Summertime? Water. Winter? Coffee or a hot cup of soup. Or cash. Hell, even stopping for a chat every now and then.

Gloves is another one, i go through a pair of gloves a week, at least. Want to spend big money, a pair of steel toed boots. But simply acknowledging your garbage man exists is a good way to get on the nice list.

Also, we have naughty and nice lists. Im like trashy santa