On leaving town

I packed this morning and hauled various items to the car: clothes, food that might spoil in the fridge in a weeks time, shoes, coat sweater jacket because it has become @#$%^%$ cold out again. On one of the trips back from car to apartment I picked up several soda cans that had been tossed and flattened in the parking lot outside my door. As I was walking towards the recycling bin a woman with two dogs, a stroller and a baby, and a four-year-old boy walked by. What's that lady doing, the little boy asked his mother. She's picking up pop cans, the mother answered. Some people need extra money and so they go around picking up pop cans.