So last week sometime, I went out to grab some dinner (Stephanie was going to have one of her meetings for the fershlugginer synagogue (I'm starting to forget what she looks like-- she goes to work, she goes to synagogue meetings, she goes to sleep) In fact, we're going out on a date tonight just so that we can remember why we are dating. Anyway, when I came back there was an old door and a mattress box spring in my parking space. Which is at the back of our property. I was more than a little upset. Not only do I not want to have my parking space or property be a dumping ground for neighbors, non-neighbors or others in the area to leave their possessions, but now I am somehow saddled with the ridiculous task of figuring out what to do with this detritus. I called the Yonkers police (which is the non-emergency hotline, but is apparently connected to the 911 hotline anyway) and they told me to call the Mayor's hotline. which, for the uninitiated, is 377-HELP (4357). It's a division of the Department of Public Works, and their job is to help with street lights, You see, the mayor of Yonkers is trying to set up a quality of life 311 number similar to New York's. But they already have it, this 377-HELP. Anyway, I called that number and within 10 minutes, at 7 pm at night, a garbage truck came by and hauled away the bad stuff. Which is a win for me (tax paying citizen that I am) and a win for whoever dumped that stuff on my lawn, as they didn't have to deal with it. I just need to figure out how to make it a loss for that guy, so that whenever I come back from wherever I'm going, I don't find OPD on the lawn (Other People's Detritus)