Why is the trash trailer upside down?
circa 1994
Sonlight had an old utility/wood hauling trailer made out of a pickup truck bed and frame. We built a wooden box on top of the trailer with rear doors as a trash trailer for the camp. Sonlight had to haul its trash 17 miles to the county landfill every couple of weeks. In the summer months, the trash trailer was a major biological project with millions of maggots crawling around all the hot gooey garbage. At the land fill, the game was to run into the trailer, grab a bag of trash and run out without getting too many maggots on you. It was gross.
Mary and Don were making the run to the dump with the camp truck and trash trailer in tow. We noticed Mary and Don came walking back to camp, to the lodge. This was not normal! There had been an accident with the truck and trash trailer. It seems the trailer hitch had not been completely fastened to the truck bumper. As they were going around a corner on Sonlight’s road, the trailer came apart from the truck, went off the road and flipped upside down. Yes, the plywood box blew apart and the full trash trailer was all over the place. Maggots were running everywhere. Trash and trash bags were scattered about. It was an EPA mess.
We gathered some shovels and rakes along with a box of empty trash bags and went on a clean up run. After quickly flipping the trailer back on its wheels, we cleaned up what we could off the neighbors ranch land. Before anyone came by, we took all our toys and all the trash we could collect and left. I would guess that even today, if you looked hard enough, you could find some maggots still running around that spot and enjoying some long forgotten garbage.