Laser printer in the rain
Mar. 3rd, 2010 08:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snousleDropped off my badly-functioning laser printer at the transfer station for recycling. A new toner cartridge was costing more than an entire new laser printer.
I had envisioned a neat clean warehouse where electronics were respectfully shuttled off to their highest purpose, whatever that might be, while evaluated and attended to by nerdy men in white coats. It was nothing more than a rectangular area of a parking lot. Leaving it in a sad heap in the rain really bothered me for some reason.
It was a crappy printer. But I do understand the instinct to hoard. I just grit my teeth but it's not easy. I think of it as a "compassion disorder".
I had envisioned a neat clean warehouse where electronics were respectfully shuttled off to their highest purpose, whatever that might be, while evaluated and attended to by nerdy men in white coats. It was nothing more than a rectangular area of a parking lot. Leaving it in a sad heap in the rain really bothered me for some reason.
It was a crappy printer. But I do understand the instinct to hoard. I just grit my teeth but it's not easy. I think of it as a "compassion disorder".
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Date: 2010-03-04 04:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 06:33 am (UTC)"Compassion disorder"? Funny that you'd use that term. I've been complaining for years that too many people in this country seem to suffer from EDD... Empathy Deficit Disorder.
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Date: 2010-03-04 07:42 am (UTC)The truth is that I am so crushed by what I see in the world that I transfer it to inanimate objects. :-(
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Date: 2010-03-04 07:58 am (UTC)Lotsa times I think of good stuff from the 50's or earlier being dropped off, that just needs a few parts to make it new again.
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Date: 2010-03-04 03:54 pm (UTC)