so when we were moving to texas we decided to keep our mattress and get rid of the bedframe since it was basically broken. also our roommate left hers behind when she moved out
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so we assumed we could just call the city and arrange a pickup in a few days and maybe pay a fee. this was a very foolish assumption
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it turns out the process is more like, you contact the city and make an application and pay a fee for the privilege to request trash pickup
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then you have to wait a week before you can actually apply to schedule a pickup, which is another application and another fee. we were moving in a few days
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naturally this meant I waited until 2am and hauled out the bedframes and put them outside an abandoned building across the street
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we'd been baffled why furniture appearing on the sidewalk on our street was such a routine occurrence and it turns out this was likely the reason
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this is the sf condition, established processes make it almost impossible to do a thing the right way, forcing people to subvert them and thus make the problem much worse
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