Vol. 1, No. 22 — A few days after settling into my student apartment in Germany, it was time to take out the trash. I tied up the plastic bag, brought it to the building’s dumpster, and went off to class. When I arrived home later that evening, I saw the same bag lounging on the ground next to the dumpster with a handwritten note stuck on top. I took the note upstairs and after a short session with my German dictionary decoder ring, I realized what had happened. The sanitation workers heard glass inside and refused the bag.