Garbage Fun

There was once a little boy who loved garbage trucks about as much as any little boy could.

He loved the rumbling of the truck’s engine as it traveled down his street. (SOUND)

The squeaking and hissing of the brakes. (SOUND)

The clanking of the trash as it entered the mouth of the dumpster. (SOUND)

The beeping sound as it pushed the load deeper. (SOUND)

As soon as the boy heard the garbage truck coming to his street (SOUND), he would grab a nearby stool and peer out his front door window. (SOUND) The garbage man would hop off the truck and dump the bins into the dumpster. (SOUND) The driver in the front cab would touch the controls that would push the load deeper. (SOUND) Then the garbage man would wave to the boy and the boy would wave back. The man would hop back on the side of the truck and be off.

The little boy practiced being a garbage man. (SOUND) He would fling soft toys onto the steps leading to the second floor of his house, then hang on to the bottom banister as if it were the edge of a real truck. (SOUND) He would push his load deeper into the truck and drive off (SOUND).

One day, Mom asked the boy, “Would you like to help me make cookies for the garbage men.

The boy said, “That would be great!”

The next time the little boy heard the truck coming (SOUND), he had a surprise. (SOUND) The boy stood on the sidewalk near his garbage bins. When the truck got close to his house, it was much bigger than the boy imagined. He held his Mom’s hand as he gave the cookies to the garbage man with his other hand.

“Thank you for the gift young man,” the trucker said, smiling down at the boy.

Later that summer, the boy was playing in his front yard when the garbage truck appeared. (SOUND) The trucker lifted the bins into the back of the truck (SOUND) and asked, “Would you like to take a ride in my garbage truck?” The little boy couldn’t believe that his mother said yes!

Soon he was headed down the street in the front seat of a real garbage truck with his mother running close behind them. Can it get any better than this? Yes, it can!

At Christmas, the little boy was playing with other children at a family Christmas party. Suddenly a fire engine siren could be heard in the distance (SOUND). The siren was getting louder (SOUND). The children ran to the door and saw the fire truck stop at the little boy’s house. Suddenly they heard “Ho, ho ho!” There in the fire engine was the boy’s favorite garbage man with Santa Claus! The garbage man raised a microphone and announced, “Santa, I have a special friend at this house.” So, Santa climbed down from the fire truck, walked into the little boy’s house, and gave each child a candy cane. Then he got back on the truck and left, with his sirens blasting. (SOUND) “Ho,ho,ho.”

08 - Garbage Fun by Gammy