- Parker Bright
“Chicagoans” is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Jaime Queroz, commercial garbage man.
“There are so many things that can go wrong, and they do go wrong. Sometimes the Dumpster wheels get frozen in the ice or snow, and they’re hard to maneuver. And then the mechanics of the garbage truck weren’t manufactured for this type of weather, so the brake lines freeze. Last winter? To tell anybody exactly how that affected me physically, mentally—it would do no good unless you were actually there.
