amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 12/02/2024there's no bond like the one between a garbage truck driver & their toddler fans. every person driving a garbage truck is just waiting to see a toddler so they can honk the horn and put on a little show, and i die for it 742378225
🧙🏻♀️ Raina, Queen of Redundancy @brightwood.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I once told a FedEx driver, as my 2yo son stared wide eyed at the delivery van, that he had the coolest job in the world. 🚚🚒🚜 060
cartoonkoala.bsky.social @cartoonkoala.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I can't count how many Mondays we chased a garbage truck pushing a stroller around the neighborhood. 010
uncertain delights @uncertaindelights.bsky.social · 13/02/2024I was a toddler teacher and our outdoor play time was during garbage pickup every week. Mayhem. (Incredible, we loved it.) 020
Me @solartim.bsky.social · 12/02/2024The street sweeper doing donuts in our cul-de-sac was the best 070
Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 12/02/2024In addition to being obsessed with trucks, our little guy loves the Harley Davidson that belongs to our neighbor across the street. He also tries to touch (and get into) every car he sees. We may be raising a car fanatic. 030
Chris Sturgill @sturgical.bsky.social · 13/02/2024So uncool that our toddler turned us into big truck fans. Now he’s 11 and has NO MEMORY OF THIS and NO INTEREST. 030
Thomas van der Heiden @blindgoblin.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I mean, if you don't get joy out of seeing a toddler just completely lose it in awe over a garbage truck; what are you even living for? 020
Lydia @lydiabeeyoobee.bsky.social · 12/02/2024The only thing cooler might be the Mr. Trash Wheel in Baltimore. Well and his wife Professor Trash Wheel. 070
Baby Fatt 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @babyfatt.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I love garbage trucks! Every Monday and Thursday morning (and Tuesday and Friday for the recycling) I watch them do their thing. My dream is to drive one. I’m 65. 150
Che, pibe… @chepibe.bsky.social · 12/02/2024When he was 4, my little dude and I would sit on the back of my tailgate every Friday morning, waiting for the recycling truck. Me with my coffee, him with his milk, and the excitement barely keeping the kid seated as he heard the truck rumbling along the next street over. 070
dj mini squirt ✿｡~°~｡☆ @imnoplath.bsky.social · 12/02/2024The kid i used to nanny for was OBSESSED ! And when theyd wave or honk the horn he'd lose his mind and i would always end up crying lmao im tearing up typing this 0240
Matthew Nadler @areaman65.bsky.social · 12/02/2024We didn't have trash pickup when my kids were toddlers, so we never had that experience. 000
uGrei_LK.tar.gz 📎🏳️🌈 @greilk.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Sure, ordinary garbage trucks are cool, but when I grew up, once a year we got a visit by the BigBoi garbage truck! It ate everything! We shoved couches, washing machines and all kinds of stuff into it, and it just omnomnom'ed it all! And I was there for it! 010
Shawn Wuske @wuske.bsky.social · 10/11/2024From a few years ago, but here’s a conversation between my kid and our beloved garbage truck driver: “How you doing, big guy?” “I’m just a little excited!” 010
DigsUpDeadFolksStuff @trowelblister.bsky.social · 15/02/2024Yup, told my mom I wanted to drive a garbage truck when I grew up. Archaeologist is not that great a leap... 000
Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 12/02/2024one time we were watching a guy who was just incredibly good at the excavator shovel go to work digging out a conduit and one guy said to the site boss, "Is that your operator?" and the guy said "yeah," and then he turned to my then-five-year-old and said "that's my next operator." 31110
Isonomist @isonomist.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Can confirm, my neff was a garbage truck driver for 10 years. 000
Danielle Gross, laughs at funny public comment @danipa.bsky.social · 12/02/2024My kids were never into the garbage truck but when my dog was younger she used to bark to go out as soon as she heard the garbage truck b/c they gave her treats. 090
rabagast @rabagast.bsky.social · 12/02/2024i was absolutely terrified of garbage trucks at that age 030
Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 12/02/2024when my wife was little she asked the drivers for their autographs. they were delighted to oblige 0120
Kacy @kacyo.bsky.social · 12/02/2024My toddler was obsessed with the garbage truck, and during her Covid 3rd birthday, we were doing cake slices in the front yard, and they showed up for their regular route and got some cake. She lost her mind, and they were *thrilled*. 0320
diagonalfish (spooky) @diagonal.fish · 12/02/2024One of my kid's friends (age 4 at the time) dressed up as a garbage truck for Halloween a couple years ago. It ruled. 0120
Kate MacInnis @mathdancing.bsky.social · 12/02/2024One time, the water department had to send out a team to repair a main in front of kid’s preschool when he was 3. It was a slow street, so they explained what the machines did to kids and the kids brought them lemonade and crackers at snack time, and everyone was happy that week! 050
jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2024the one time my oldest missed waving at the garbage truck, he was inconsolable for the rest of the day 92681
Meli @meli-living.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Yes!! I love to see it. Always reminds me of when my sister and I would gesture for truck drivers to honk their horns! Such joy! 130
Denny • Shin (シン) Grungler @dennywhere.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Recently I was driving a semi through farmland and a kid came SPRINTING up to the fence line to get me to honk. 1110
Patchen Barss @patchenbarss.bsky.social · 13/02/2024I remember being at an intersection where there happened to be a garbage truck, a fire engine, and a bulldozer all stopped at the light. my kids weren’t with me and I felt huge guilt they weren’t there to share this miracle. 010
Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I remember going on field trips in a school bus as a kid and all of us just waiting to pull up alongside a semi so we could make the universal “honk the horn!!!!” arm motion, and the vast majority of truck drivers seeming genuinely delighted to oblige all the kids. Lovely. 1690
Ellen @dellens.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I’m many decades past toddlerhood but when the sanitation guy said “yes” and I threw that trash into the truck, what a thrill. 010
Gonza85 @ldgc0085.bsky.social · 12/02/2024My 4 yr old learned the days of the week just so he can know which day the garbage truck is coming. 0230
⛄️ ❄️ hibernating beaver stan acct ❄️ ⛄️ @beaverstanacct.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I'm often a "don't use your horn it's loud and annoying" type but there's a special carve out for small children and big vehicles. 0170
Betsy Dornbusch🎃🦃📚🏈 @betsydornbusch.bsky.social · 13/02/2024My husband and I waved at our garbage truck guy today, no kid in sight. Got a very cheerful greeting back. Much friendlier than the postman. 110
Jessica @afunkyfennec.bsky.social · 13/02/2024This clip is adorable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=847a...youtube.comDanish children in daycare watching the garbagetruckDanish children in daycare watching the garbagetruck-------------------------------Keep up to date with SipsawiyaON FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/sipsa... 000
The_Turtle_Moves @theturtlemoves.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Amazing that appreciation for steam trains and garbage trucks is baked into toddlers at a genetic level. Makes you wonder what evolutionary forces drive that. "Squeee! There's a bear in the midden! Garbage Bear! Garbage Bear! Look at the Garbage Bear DADA!" 020
Wisp107 🏙️ @wisp107.bsky.social · 12/02/2024it’s like that one video of that Man being hype that the Fire Truck and Train were running by him 000
Krynis @krynis.ca · 12/02/2024I remember also doing this with logging trucks when I was a child (I live in what used to be the epicenter of all things logging in Canada) and those drivers lived for a bunch of kids pumping their arms to get them to blow the air horn. 080
Michael Elves @melves.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Just read Morgan Campbell's memoir My Fighting Family and there's a whole bit about his grandmother securing him a ride in the garbage truck as a little kid. 010
MICHR @monocerous.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Not a garbage truck, but a similar vibe. Toddlers cheering with every shovel toss at a guy digging a hole. youtu.be/ZFtDZRZFCbc?... 010
Chris Delauder @beaglebets.bsky.social · 12/02/2024a garbage truck driver once saw me picking up my dog's poop in SF and slowed down and motioned for me to toss it in, so it's not just toddlers 0110
Geoph Essex 🤨💭 11742d/4h/3m; 16940d/18h/34m 🕟 @semperbufo.bsky.social · 13/02/2024When I was very, very little, I wanted to be a garbage man—I didn't understand the job, but I knew they got to hang on the outside of the truck as it went, and that was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. My grandmother promised to buy me a gold (my favorite color at the time) garbage truck. 030
atreides nuts @afivegantenna.bsky.social · 12/02/2024how fucking cool are garbage trucks though? 3430
Peter Yoachim @ianpaulfreeley.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Got so routine the garbage guy pulled up and honked even if the kids weren't in the window waving yet. 0110
Chantilly @unfamousl.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Construction worker fills toy truck with dirt: youtu.be/r6oM6ip9oHU?...youtu.beConstruction crew fills little boy's toy dump truck with dirt l GMATwo-year-old JH loves to watch the construction workers on his street.SUBSCRIBE to GMA's YouTube page: https://bit.ly/2Zq0dU5 VISIT GMA's homepage: https://... 000
Michael McKinney @mashan.bsky.social · 12/02/2024One of my earliest memories is wanting to work on the garbage truck. 000
John Martell @john-martell.bsky.social · 10/11/2024My son went as a garbage truck last year for Halloween and followed that up by dressing as a recycling bin this year. 010
Paul Wilson @gonuke.bsky.social · 12/02/2024This was a plot element in a great play "The Garbologists" by Lindsay Joelle www.lindsayjoelle.com/the-garbolog... 020
Breakdancing Robot @breakdancingrobot.bsky.social · 12/02/2024This was me. If I napped too long and missed the garbage truck I would be despondent as a little kid. 020
Ben @benhampson.bsky.social · 12/02/2024The Big Three: Fire, EMTs, garbage truck drivers! Good thing we shoot astronauts into space or else there’d be some fierce competition! 🤣 1160
Call me Umma - Coca and Rumma @ummagummibear.bsky.social · 12/02/2024When I was three, I wanted to be a garbage truck driver so bad! 010
imtiredthatisall @imtiredthatisall.lol · 12/02/2024lol my kids all loved waiting for the garbage and recycling trucks and it was really so adorable. 050
Marcea the Traveler @marcea.bsky.social · 12/02/2024When my daughter was 3, she would tell me all the time she wanted to be a garbage man. I told her that it was a hard job but they had a union, so it sounded good to me. 020
Kladdagh @kladdagh.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I am literally the weird "adult" that thanks the postal courier or delivery driver, waves at the crossing guard as I drive by, and so on. I refuse to live in a world where I can't at least give a stranger a friendly wave or thank someone for doing their job. 130
Hippie Grandpa. @hippiepappa.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I blame Hank and Trash truck. 🤣🤣😂 Even when the grandkids aren’t home I still sit with the dogs and watch the pick up and wave. 020
Neil but, like, SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOKY @burghpunk.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Mine have grown out of it and I want to just wave at the driver and let him know he is still appreciated 1350
Ger in the Cloud @cloudsec9.bsky.social · 13/02/2024Had a heated discussion with a friend about this -- they were trying to "convince" their toddler NOT to be a garbage truck driver -- and I had to bring them back to reality that they'd want to be 20 things before he got out Grade one, and they should just let them live their best life!!! 🤣 010
The Sailorman @sailorwayne.bsky.social · 13/02/2024They are all so patient and kind and fun. Thanks 000
Jentucky Fried Bitchin' @jenxer.bsky.social · 12/02/2024This post Halloween I met a toddler dressed as a recycling truck and his mother was dressed as a bin. She said he is in love with the trucks. 🥹 050
Adam Van Arsdale @apv2600.bsky.social · 12/02/2024...except maybe the MBTA train steward who clips up a ticket and hands it to your son as a souvenir every time they come through? 030
season of the bitch @m01r4.bsky.social · 12/02/2024there are so many instances of toddler wisdom. like the garbage truck is amazing. they are right. 0140
ErieOfOz @erieofoz.bsky.social · 12/02/2024As a public bus driver I also look for the toddler fans best part of my day when it happens! 040
George Smith @supergeorge3333.bsky.social · 12/02/2024I'm amazed by the skill of mine, it's the kind where it's a claw on the side that picks up the cans and they always line it up perfectly each time, never have to adjust forward or back once they pull up to the curb. 040
Sara from Michigan @sarafrommi.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Us but with the milkman because he rings the doorbell 020
Jason Skiles @jasonskiles.bsky.social · 12/02/2024So true. This was a huge event every time when I was home with our toddler. I scheduled his naps so that he was awake at pickup time. Sometimes he'd insist on walking with the truck for a few blocks. He loved those drivers and they loved him. 1120
Carl @dot-stevie.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Our driver would leave little trinkets and branded SWAG for my kid when he was little. The driver was sad when our kid started preschool. Early pandemic he was only two and my wife would take him to the transfer station to watch the trucks come and go. Might be time to get his baby sister amp’d up 030
William H. Deadvereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 12/02/2024Our 3yo daughter wanted to dress up as a garbage truck for Halloween. We made one from a couple copier paper boxes & made copies of the signs on the side of our local trucks to paste on it. It was a parenting high point we've never since come close to equaling. 0100
bettybarcode (she/her) @bettybarcode.com · 12/02/2024Just a grown-up parachuting in to say that garbage collectors aren't sanitation workers, they're public health heroes & they should be at the front of the Labor Day parade 070
Laura Clawson @lauraclawson.bsky.social · 12/02/2024We live by an overpass over a commuter rail track and there are days you can see strollers lined up along there at coming-home-from-daycare time waiting for the train to come through and honk. 2450
