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Westridgewaterworks

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Got the worst mess out of my vac Some SOB used 4 vacs to clean out shipping peanuts What a mess filled the vac to the top 2 hrs later and alot of @%$#@ clean the second I opened up to clean the wind got them off to the races.
 

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Those freaking packing peanuts are one of the most horrible things ever inflicted on mankind. I hate them. You can't look at them without some taking flight.
 

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I'm giving serious thought to raising my vacuums to $2 to for 3 minutes. If I'm going to have to clean up after some A$$hole, their gonna pay me. I don't care anymore, I'm tired of being in the trash business.
 

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I use claws which I fix permanently to the hose so the customers can't unscrew them and vacuum up stuff like that. It also puts an end to towels, socks and underwear clogging the hoses.
 

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Oh what I wouldn't have given for a bunch of packing peanuts to clean up back in the summer. With temps in the 90s I had a vac crawling with maggots. Those things were everywhere, even in the money. I opened it up to find the tub completely full of maggot soup. It took me several hours to clean that mess up, then I had to go home and take a shower and it wasn't even Saturday.

Oh, and BTW they left the dead opossum in the trash can for me.
 

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just a thought- I've got a handheld stihl leaf blower (gas), with a conversion kit to make it a leaf vacuum- it makes short work of packing peanuts and paper trash- really handy thing to have around..
prolly not much good on the possum maggots, however..
 

Jim Caudill

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I had one of those customers, but I almost felt sorry for him. Nice kid, just had a birthday, and apparently his friends thought it would be a hoot to fill his car with those packing peanuts! What a mess, clogging the vac's, blowing all over the lot, etc. I stopped him and tried to help by using my trash cans and plastic bag liners. He finally left with peanuts still under the seats and in every nook and cranny; I was picking peanuts up weeks later.
 
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