The universe in a grain of sand

[jhetley]

Today, since we live in a booming metropolis, trash and recycling trucks roam our neighborhood.  And I've noticed a change in the last couple of weeks.  Previously, the Pine Tree Waste trucks ran each side of the street separately, up one side and down the other, while the city recycling truck did both sides at once.  I've always assumed that the trash truck guys did this so that they wouldn't have to risk their asses crossing traffic.

(They still block the street pretty effectively, either way, because we live on horse-and-buggy-width streets.)

Now they are collecting both sides at the same time.  I have to assume this reflects macro-economics on a local scale, cutting fuel consumption and cutting worker hours...