Hi, Alexander! Recently you wrote in a message to All:
AK> -----Beginning of the citation-----
AK> Whatever the building was built for, it hadn't been
AK> doing it for a long time. The corridor was dirty and
AK> lined with rubbish - cardboard boxes, mounds of paper,
AK> bin-liners, and half-way down, a mountain bike without
AK> wheels.
AK> ----- The end of the citation -----
AK> What are "bin-liners"?
I take this to mean new... or used... plastic bags of a type which is
often employed to cover the interior surfaces of a garbage can/trash bin/waste
receptacle and thus make it fairly easy to keep the container clean. It's not
clear to me, however, whether or not the boxes & bags are empty.
Perhaps somebody moved out of a business office or whatever, and left
discarded papers in these boxes & bags... and then some other person(s) looked
through the stuff hoping to find something useful to them. WRT the bike, I've
heard of bicycle wheels being stolen here in Vancouver. I wonder if the owner
forgot about it or chose to keep the wheels & abandon the other parts.... :-)
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
* Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)
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