Summary

Life was going pretty good for the garbage man and his wife. He would wake up to a job that he was surprised to find that he loved; he felt it was the finest job in the world. The job as a garbage collector was suitable to him, because it kept him busy and calm. One day while working, he felt something, like a slight change in his job. In a matter of hours, in a single day he wondered how his job could have changed so rapidly. When he returned home from work that day he told his wife "I think I'm going to quit my job. Try to understand." Confused as his wife was the first thing she could do was yell with confusion and sorrow in her voice. The Garbage man removed a part of the "December 10, 1951 Los Angeles Times Civil Defense Bulletin from his pocket that says they're buy radios for the garbage trucks. Followed by the mayor saying, "they'll put sending and receiving apparatus on every garbage truck in town. After the bombs his the city then their garbage trucks will go pick up the bodies." The man could not understand why they would dispose of the bodies in this type of manner. He felt that he should not be a garbage collector anymore, and that's not what garbage collecting was about. His wife tried to persuade him otherwise, due to their financial situation such as bills, money, and credit; also the kids, school, and the car. "I'm afraid that if I continued my new work I'll get used to it. And, on Christ, it just doesn't seem right a man, a human being, should ever let himself get used to any idea like that."