I forgot to come back and leave a comment - so i'm do for a spanking please! hehehe
but let me just tell you....
Before this - i had only seen your stuff for the feathered friends i think.... i do NOT KNOW if i have ever read your fiction before???
and i am absolutely hooked. honestly!!!!!!!!!! HOOKED.
you are NOT an aspiring writer... you are a WRITER.
this was SO comical - but SO well done!!!!!! the way that they couldn't curse anymore and the fluffin' and the banter - i mean - my grandfather - for a while was a garbageman! hehehe and this???
this was the culture! just hard working men - having a good time - not expecting much out of life except to do a good job and keep their noses clean, protect the community from ne'er-do-wells. hehehe and day in, day out... that was the life.
you CAPTURED this so well!!!! i LOVE this - and now that i've come back to leave a comment here - back to part 2 hehehehehe