Garbage Day II

I'm pretty sure we have the coolest public workers here in Meridian, ID.  So today is once again trash day. But its not just any trash day...its trash AND recycle day. That means that we have trucks in our community 4 times!  (each truck comes through twice to be able to get both sides of the road).  Well, as usual, Gideon and I head out to watch/follow the trucks. This round the drivers made it an extra special tour for Gideon. The first act of coolness was the recycle truck guy using the arm of his truck (usually used to pick up the trash bins and dump them in the truck) to wave to Gideon. Down the road, he lifted up the back of the truck dump-truck style (I assume this is to move everything to the back of the truck to make more room at the front but I've never seen it done. I'm not sure therefore if he did this because he needed to or to be cool. Yes, I'm a toddler mom who is starting to call garbage trucks cool.) Later, the trash truck guy stopped and asked Gideon's name. He then introduced himself as Bart and told Gideon that "I love picking up your trash". Like we were making his day or something. When the recycle guy came back to finish his route he lifted the whole truck again. Anyway, they wave, they honk, they make his day.