by Catscout

Created on: September 09, 2009   Last Updated: September 10, 2009

Dumpster diving! Like looking for love?

If you've never heard of the phrase dumpster diving you have either been living on the moon for the last 10 years or like me living in rural England, I had to look it up on the internet. Its actually quite fascinating and apparently its done all over the world.

Apparantly it involves scrambling through dark and sometimes smelly places looking for that special something, it could be (depending on your circumstances of course!) food to eat, furniture to use or somehing you can sell, it's usually done at night when only certain people (if any) can see you and if they do it's because they are doing the same thing as you.

Now when I sat and thought about it, (yes I am that sad and have no life) it seemed to me that the people who do it are looking for something. Obviously I hear you cry!. But do they find what they are looking for and what are they actually looking for? Read on...

It sounds a bit like what my girlfriends and I do on a night out. We go somewhere late at night when its dark. We delve into unsavoury places usually dark, damp and gloomy and full of weird unidentifiable smells.

Its just like diving into a dumpster! And what you find isn't always any better.

Just as you get there, get in and have a look around, you instantly spot something that somebody has obviously thrown away, unwanted as it looks cheap and tacky. To the right person it could be the answer to their prayers, but you pass on it and leave it for someone else. As you get further in you find something old and passed it's sell by date, that nobody would want as it's pretty well worn and a little bit smelly!

Then once you've been in there a while and start getting hot and sweaty. You begin to wish you were somewhere else, then you see it Bundled into a corner looking crumpled and inconspicuous. Something you have been looking for all your life. You get closer pick it up and there you see something so precious that you know you are going to keep it forever and never let it go.

I haven't got to that part yet! I can only aspire to finding that one true precious item. Maybe I should transfer my Saturday night out from my local club to dumpster diving behind it. You never know I might get lucky, one way or an other

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