Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 135, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 12, 2006 Page: 4 of 10
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4 Perry Daily Journal Wednesday, July 12, 2006
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Continued from Page 1 "That’s what counts, if you can work together as a team,”
I proudly pulled out the well-worn yellow work gloves I Lonnie told me. I try to do the suffering with him. It s not
had brought along. Lonnie and Trevor, who had been work- how fast you can get it done. It s how fast we can get it done,
ing since 5 a.m., just smiled. At this point, I didn’t know They already had my respect. .
what I had gotten myself into We pulled up to a downtown business for our first
I decided to play reporter for a little while as we started dumpster. It was a four-yard dumpster, and, as all dumpsters
driving. I whipped out my handy-dandy notebook and have, it had what are called ears hanging off the sides. The
started firing questions at the men. For this job, I would ears fit perfectly into grooves in the back of the truck and
have to get all of my questions out before my actual work hold the dumpster steady. A hoist and hook attach to the
began. dumpster and pull it up into the truck, where the trash is,
Within five minutes, I learned all of the number details of obviously, dumped.
the job. Lonnie and Trevor started in Perry last week. Just as I was thinking the dumpster aspect was not so
(Tonkawa-based Davis Sani- bad, a steady stream of brown, chunky liquid sprayed out of
tation, Inc., just recently the bottom of the truck and landed right by my foot. I felt
gained Perry's sanitation con- my stomach turn as I recognized bits of pizza and old ciga-
tract and took over sanitation rettes floating in it. Yummy.
service July 1.) Their daily Little did I know trash trucks do not hold liquid and squish
hours depend on how much it out. Trevor gave me some extremely valuable advice on any.. . .
trash is out; sometimes they this. Hailey Branson rides on a trash truck as she learns about
work 10, sometimes they "You always want to stand on the side because you never the working men of Davis Sanitation, Inc.
work up to 16. They work six know what will squirt on you and when it will squirt,” he
days a week. Monday told me with a laugh. Fantastic . . . front yard. We had to turn the enormous truck around, go
through Saturday. After we checked four business dumpsters, it was time to through another alley and back up to the single can. It was
I quickly learned that these begin the residential route. We pulled into an alley. There it a process that really slowed the job down. Therefore, if your
- two men possess a quality was ... the first residential trashcan. My gloves went on. trashcan is supposed to be in a designated area, please keep
that is, these days, hard to Lonnie laughed and told me I didn't have to get out and do it there
i come by teamwork the work. But thats what I was there for. I reached in for When the back of the truck got full, an enormous com-
As a driver, Lonnie could my first bag of trash and tossed it into the back of the truck pacting blade was pulled out by levers to squash all of the
technically sit in his air-con- like a professional. The next can was a little ways down the trash and pull it into the truck s "belly." I witnessed an en-
ditioned truck (his is the only alley, so it was officially time to hang onto the back of the tire couch get crushed like a twig. And ... I got to run the
one with A/C) all day. But, truck. I was beginning to wonder whether I was dreaming, levers. It was awesome.
since it is just him and Trevor Trevor showed me how to hang on. I stepped onto a small . I was talking to Trevor as we cleaned out a group of cans
(there is usually one more footing area and held onto a hook with my left hand. I in the Maple addition when 1 heard a, “Go, Hailey!” I turned
, hand on the back of the wrapped my right arm completely through a handle and around in confusion to see Gabby, Nolan, Mariah and
a truck), he jumps out and heldon for dear life. Heather Wilson standing on their front porch holding what
S helps with the strenuous work I was officially hanging onto a trash truck. I was wonder- appeared to be a camera. They were laughing. Much love,
Lonnie, one of the working just as much. He even turns ing what to think when I caught sight of a small sticker in guys, much love . . .
men Hailey Branson helped the air conditioning off when front of me reading, “Serious injury or death can occur.” It After about four hours of standing on the truck, picking
this week, carries a bag of Trevor is on the back so he is was complete with a drawing of a stickman getting crushed. UP entire cans and trash bags that weighed more than me,
trash. not suffering alone I held on for dear life and started singing "Jesus Loves Me” I was exhausted. I made the mistake of not drinking any-
inmymind. thing all day, so I was thirsty. It was 2 p.m., so it was ridicu-
We pulled up to so many trashcans in so many back alleys lously hot.
I was lost. The smell of the back of the truck was like roses As we pulled into the Hector Tovar Baseball Complex to
compared to the smell of the insides of the trashcans of our get those trashcans, I got a little lightheaded. The back of a
fine city. Perry, I have seen your trash. I am disgusted. trash truck is not the best place to get lightheaded. The
1 felt like the main character of Shel Silverstein’s poem smell intensified. My arms, which were the only things keep-
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage ing me from falling off the truck and to a certain death, felt
Out. She witnessed “peanut butter, caked and dry, curdled like Jello. This work was incredibly hard!
milk and crusts of pie, moldy melons, dried up mustard, egg- When my back-of-the-truck-duties were done, I climbed
shells mixed with lemon custard, cold French fries and ran- back into the truck s cab. Lonnie told me I had worked hard
cid meat, yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat . . .” and that the only other woman he had seen ride the back of
Luckily for Miss Stout, she is a fictional character. I can the truck was the woman who signed his checks.
bear witness to the horror of these things. They are real. But I was very sunburned and dirty (and probably smelled
I cannot describe the smell without drudging up haunting like trash) by the time we pulled back up to my car. I would
memories. Something did actually spill on my leg. I said 1 go home and collapse on the couch while Lonnie and Trevor
didn’t want to know what it was. Lonnie told meI probably would continue to the landfill outside of town and then come
didn’t, back to Perry to work the rest of the day. They were some of
"The way I look at it, it’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do the hardest-working men I had ever met.
it!” Trevor’told me. I was amazed with the amount of care Lonnie and Trevor
I was busy pulling rotten food out of one can when I came bad for their job, their customers and for Perry. If there was
face-to-face with three dogs wanting to eat me for brunch. I trash outside of a can, they picked it up. If there was trash
was hanging off the truck when I was smacked upside the on the road, they picked it up. They went out of their way to
head with a tree branch. I was checking a small dumpster do so.
when its lid came crashing down on me. I did not think I Lennie told me their main purpose was to not only take
would live to see the end of the day. care ofthe town, but to take care of its visitors too, so that
I did learn a pet peeve of someone driving a trash truck, they will be able to come in, look around, and say it is a nice,
After we did an entire alley and were already halfway down clean place to five. Guys, you have mv respect.
the next, we noticed an out-of-place trashcan in someone’s As always, the purpose of “A Hand for the Working Man"
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jobs that keep our country running. It is to salute the work-
ing people. Let us give them a hand.
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Brown, Gloria. Perry Daily Journal (Perry, Okla.), Vol. 114, No. 135, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 12, 2006, newspaper, July 12, 2006; Perry, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2260485/m1/4/?q=War+of+the+Rebellion.: accessed June 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.