From dust, to dust

(Photo by the so-called “old guy” with the dreaded and utterly reprehensible Nikon D100.)

The final vestige of my long-gone parents is removed.
We had to give up because the bottom had rusted out.
89 bazilyun gaily-colored sugar dots from the chocolate cake Carol bought from mighty Wal*Mart are still on our garage floor.
Actually, this is the final of two metal trashcans from my parents. We gave up on the first a few months ago.
Both trashcans were spray-painted “2401” in yellow. My parents lived at 2401 Allendale Road, but we live at 2403 State Route 65.
I was loudly excoriated for not getting 2401 as my house-number.
I probably could have, but I didn’t care that much.
Our property is in a progression along State Route 65, with 2395 next door, and 2407 far up the road.
Two other homes have been built between ours and 2407. They are numbered 2415 and 2435.
Our recently deceased 94 year old nosy neighbor across the road was 2412.
2395 was built at the same time as our house (1989).
Pizza delivery guys have stopped at our house innumerable times trying to find 2407.
So now the crumpled trashcan gets consigned to the mighty Flint landfill, to rest with the many decaying rodent carcasses that were delivered in it, and the cartons of frozen dog-poop.
From dust, to dust.

RE: “‘Old guy’ with the dreaded and utterly reprehensible Nikon D100.......” —My macho, blowhard brother-from-Boston, who is 13 years younger than me, calls me “the old guy” as a put-down (I also am the oldest). I also am loudly excoriated by all my siblings for preferring a professional camera (like the Nikon D100) instead of a point-and-shoot. This is because I long ago sold photos to nationally published magazines.

“Carol” is the first wife of my wife’s brother, who he divorced. She lives nearby in Rochester in the old suburban house of her deceased parents, along with her only daughter and her husband and child; “Grandmother.” —Carol never remarried, and maintains a relationship with my wife’s 93-year-old mother. (My wife of 41+ years is “Linda.”) Carol is the only wife of my wife’s brother approved by her mother. “Jerry” has been married four times.

“2401 Allendale Road” is in Oak Lane Manor, a suburb of Wilmington in northern Delaware, where I lived as a teenager. We live at “2403 State Route 65” in the town of West Bloomfield, a rural town in western New York. —Route 65 is the main north-south road.

RE: “I was loudly excoriated for not getting 2401 as my house-number........” —By my all-knowing, blowhard brother-from-Boston, the macho ad-hominem king, who noisily badmouths everything I do or say.

“Our recently deceased 94 year old nosy neighbor across the road” was Vern Habecker (“HAH-bek-rrrr”), who was always watching us. —I had a good time with Vern; always giving him the business.

“Flint landfill” is where our trash gets dumped, in the rural town of “Flint.”

“Decaying rodent carcasses” were critters caught by our dogs.