lukestein’s avatarlukestein’s Twitter Archive—№ 10,797

  1. When my parents met, they worked for the NYC government, which was in a bitter fight with the sanitation union about switching from rear-loading trucks that required a three-man crew (still all men until 1986) rather than labor-saving top-loaders. 1/2 nytimes.com/1982/04/20/nyregion/2-man-garbage-crews-agreed-on-for-the-city.html
    1. …in reply to @lukestein
      As a boy, I was obsessed with garbage trucks. At least once, the san workers let me sit in the cab as they worked their way down our Manhattan street. Context, as I unpack a box of childhood t-shirts that my parents sent me now that we have storage space in our new house.
      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API