Subj : word
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Sat Oct 31 2020 14:36:12

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....  :-)




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 * Origin: Wits' End, Vancouver CANADA (1:153/716)

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