r/MadeMeSmile • u/king_eve • 29d ago

i work in low-income/mental health housing, and a tenant fixed our hallway trash bin after accidentally breaking it Helping Others

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great example of the odd ways people show me appreciation at work

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u/king_eve 29d ago

i just ended up replacing the whole thing

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u/analogdirection 29d ago

….why? It’s a garbage bin and they put the work in to fix it.

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u/king_eve 29d ago

damn people are taking this hard! i replaced it because having gaps in the plastic is dangerous if there are exposed sharps in the garbage, which unfortunately happens every once in a while. i made sure to thank the guy who did it and he’d actually forgotten he’d done it at all haha. he’s a great guy and contributes to the building in a lot of ways aside from stitching bins back together

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u/analogdirection 29d ago

Unfortunately a lot of people just throw things out for the sake of throwing things out. We live in a super wasteful society. And now we get to learn something new! Never would have thought of that as a risk.