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PIG STUFFING

By far, the job I've had that most people would consider the most unappealing would be the one I had stuffing huge pigs for a specialty catering company in Pennsylvania. I donned a really bad '70s fur coat (probably worth a million dollars in today's retro world) and worked in a massive refrigerator bigger than the apartment I was living in at the time. In it were anywhere from 10 to 20 dead 200-pound pigs. I had to split them from neck to crotch, empty them out, wash out their cavity, stuff them with one of three different types of stuffing and sew them back up.

All of this needed to be done bare-handed due to the delicate surgical process involved, and truth be told, agonizingly cold fingers was the worst part of the job. It's amazing how quickly human beings get acclimated to gore. Top that, kids!

— dkrolfe


SWIMMING-POOL LANDFILL

Who needs to pay for curbside trash service when you can avoid the expense and dump it in your backyard swimming pool? That's just what we discovered when one of our clients scheduled our junk-removal service.

When my truck team called to let me know they had a HUGE, NASTY job that involved cleaning out one year's worth of household garbage from someone's swimming pool, I had to go see it for myself.

They weren't pulling my leg. When I arrived, I noted the familiar smell of a landfill. It took us all day to clean out the swimming pool and trash that had piled up from the pool to the second-story deck. We ended up hauling several truckloads to the dump, using several bottles of hand sanitizer and almost lost our lunch from the awful smell.

By the way, when the client scheduled the service, they used an assumed name since they were so embarrassed.

— gotjunk

 
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