Just ask

At the networking event, we served lunch. That as usual generated a lot of garbage. So we bagged it all up and I went to look for a garbage bin where I could throw all the trash bags into. I couldn't find one nearby so I asked around. One person told me that the previous year each volunteer had taken two trash bags each and trashed them in the garbage bins in their apartment or their home. I thought that was insane.

So I called security and asked them if they could point me to a garbage bin on campus. They couldn't. So I asked them what were my alternatives. They sent security around and after a few calls they told me that I should bag up the garbage and leave it on the side. In the morning the janitorial service would come and clean up.

So just by asking around, we found a solution to an irksome problem that came as a relief to all of us faced with the prospect of taking two trash bags each and dumping it in the garbage bins in our apartments or home.