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Meanwhile, it's the bane of my adult existence, as in "oh SHIT I hear the garbage truck and didn't put out our garbage!"

Nothing compared to when a cement mixer was working right outside a preschool playground

So sad that it was short lived. It's an absolute treasure.

Not truck, but there is a Thai restaurant with outdoor seating near the train tracks in our town and they apparently get a decent number of families with kids because trains. It helps that it is also next to a trash panda fountain: www.reddit.com/r/trashpanda...

it is, to a 2 year old, the ultimate car. and they already like cars. (car was my daughter's first word and that is *not* entirely an LA thing; 'twas the same for her mother and maternal grandfather in Traverse City)

It is the best! A true NYC story!

Can confirm: www.amazon.com/I-Stink-Kate...

French not Belgian.

I've been told that as a young child I liked to be carted around in a wagon around the neighborhood to watch the garbage truck go. I also remember filling a little trash bin with leaves and dumping it onto my face, and according to my mom I would then continue smashing the bin into my face

I kind of want to book a garbage truck party just so my dog can meet one up close in the hope it convinces her they aren't The Enemy.

My first dream job was the guy who rides on back of the garbage truck. Now, as an adult who knows how much a union sanitation worker makes, I'm wondering if I should have stuck with that

I didn't realize little kids liked trash trucks so much. I imagine the claw they use to pick up the trashbins must be particularly intriguing.

Garbage Truck and Dinosaur. The two universal child languages.

I loved watching the trash men when I was little!

Mine at around 2 couldn’t quite articulate ‘tr’ sounds or ‘p’ sounds, so “dump truck” became “dumb fuck.” Hilarious and he loved dump trucks.

One of my favorite Caldecott Honor winners this year, Every Monday Mabel is about the enduring love of garbage trucks

kids love a Huge Vehicle

My son was obsessed with garbage trucks when he was little. I’ll never forget the time we stopped to talk to a police officer & all my son wanted to do was excitedly talk about the garbage truck across the street.

"Garbage truck! Garbage truck!" is the refrain near one fence at my job. One of the drivers puts on a whole show for the kids, pushing all the buttons to move every little arm on the front of the truck like it's waving. You should have seen the day the parking lot had a sweeper vehicle

Garbage day is one of the highlights of my 8 month old's week. That and when the lawn care guys come to mow.

This winter the garbage men started a faux "war" with all the kids at the bus stop--they would egg them on to throw snowballs, and if a snowball managed to hit the truck the guy on the back would dramatically fall off like he'd been shot they have earned the neighborhood kids' undying loyalty

all toddlers love trains, construction sites, and pushing something around in a stroller.

The Holy Trinity for all kids: Garbage trucks Fire engines Lil Nas X

Garbage Truck is nonbinary

open.spotify.com/track/4YbslG...

truth

When my daughter was little she told me that she wanted to be a Garbage Truck Driver when she grows up, because they only need to work one day a week.

I, STINK This Alphabet Book is the best Truck Alphabet Book, hilarious, beautifully illustrated, a true NYC story. Excellent 👌

I think we can all get behind Garbage Truck.

I wonder if anyone has studied this, adults clearly don’t give the garbage truck the same esteem as children do, and why not? Adults if anything know how important the garbage truck is in a way that children do not. Why then are kids so much more into it

I wanted to be garbage man til I was about 12 because hanging off the back riding through the neighborhood seemed like the height of human accomplishment and fun.

Similarly, there was a recent ad for a train (I forgot which one) that said “Take the TRAIN. Because no child has ever yelled, ‘look, a rideshare!’”

I grew up Egyptian in Kuwait, the most glittery princess of girly girls and would say proudly when someone asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, “garbage truck driver!” Even after an MFA my dad wouldn’t stop teasing me about it.

Honestly, I'm not a big car guy or anything like that but large heavy machinery is just cool. There's just something so fascinating how we built these behemoths and that some of them have such niche specific use cases. We built a giant truck specifically to pick up and crush trash? That's cool

I worked in a toy store and you best believe we knew the difference between a garbage truck and a DUMP truck. If you think there’s no difference then please let these children explain it to you

Are you familiar with Truck Tunes? Here's a taste.

Truth. 5yo nibling loves all trucks and things that go so it always made sense that Garbage Truck was an object of fascination. but 3yo nibling who mostly likes stuffies and animals *also* is fascinated by Garbage Truck.

One of the Caldecott Honorees for best illustrated picture book this year is a story about a kid who LOOOVES the garbage truck. So, popular, and has artistic merit.

But does it beat Fire Engine?

I absolutely wore out my VHS tape of Men at Work when I was a kid. I was absolutely confident I was going to grow up to be a garbage man.

It’s probably related to why they all love dinosaurs. “Look how big!”

Bobage 'wuck

Children yearn for the big machines

Also Fire Truck

Also the primary difference between children and dogs.

My older brother was OBSESSED with the kerosene truck (which I guess was a thing in the late ‘50s/early ‘60s). According to our mom, he called it the “seen fruck.”

but they all pale in comparison to fire truck

Additional nomination: Monster trucks

I had a bunch of chances to drive around a mini-digger during my childhood. It was great. It's surprisingly cheap to rent one of those for a day, by the way.

There's a reason digger land exists youtu.be/1Q2twhYZ53k?...

I nannied for a 5 year old girl who would go fucking bananas over a cement truck lmao

What a GREAT idea!!

Can't stop thinking about trump and the fucking garbage truck

The guy driving the truck here is an older dude with a white beard so we affectionately call him Trash Santa, handling the other end of regular Santa’s job

Grandson has a thing for diggers. We had 'give parents some alone time' duty. We took him to an art gallery at the beach . Had to have been 300 costal landscapes. 3 rooms down, in the background, was the impression of a digger. A scream of complete joy and chasing a toddler through the gallery.

When my older kiddo was 18 months old, we visited London. One night we were in a pub when the garbage truck came through the alley, and we watched the whole collection! A couple of pub guys seemed to think I was nuts, but kiddo loved it. :-)

Early in the pandemic my wife and son mapped out the route through the neighhourhood so that when the garbage truck got too far ahead they could take a shortcut and catch it again, easily spending several hours every week chasing after it. “Garbage truck walks” were a highlight of the week.

Could’ve been me when I was a kiddo. Fast forward 30 years, and somehow I married a woman with a dad in scrap steel and trucking. I went to the yard with him a few times. Saw some cars get crushed! It was amazing! Huge shit eating grin on my face the whole time.

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Whenever my friend had to give her toddler a little haircut, he would never sit still and *always* wiggle out of the chair. She had the brilliant idea to put a chair by the front window on trash day, and as soon as they could hear the truck down the street, he sat still and she'd start trimming 😂

And that’s why the Mighty Machines franchise is a thing 😊

Oh I wish you were closer, we’re hosting the annual Big Truck day at our rec centre next week! Honestly the best day of the year for seeing marvelously happy local little ones (and grown ups, it must be said).

I was not allowed to even sit in the driver's seat, no matter how nicely I asked, but I did get to look at engines and one of their mechanic bays and that was soo cool :D Anyway, thanks for sharing the video, trucks are cool

Garbage Truck: The Great Unifier

My son loved to watch the Canadian TV show Mighty Machines as a small child - it has videos of recycling, garbage trucks, snow removal, steel mill - you name it. As an adult, I found I had to tune out the somewhat corny dubbed voices, but all the video parts are fascinating. youtu.be/3_MSKP9ukcw?...

If you want music with your garbage trucks, search for the ones from Taiwan. They play songs like the ice cream trucks in the US.

Visited my friend who had quadruplet boys age 5. At one point the boys were scattered about the house. My friend put on a DVD of big trucks & bulldozers & such. Boys arrived sprinting from all directions.

If I'm going to read at the 5th grade level, I'm at least going to enjoy garbage trucks like I read at the 5th grade level

youtu.be/HWLuXiA-Lsw?...

I'm more into building machinery and farming gear. Since being a child.

Garbage trucks were cool already when we were kids...AND NOW THEY HAVE ROBOT GRABBY ARMS WTF

It's the anticipation... 👍

There is an entire Netflix show called Trash Truck about a sentient garbage truck, raccoon, bear and child who are all friends

Their poor sniffers so overwhelmed

Garbage trucks are basically the elephants of the urban Savannah

Every May the Public Works Experience, an infrastructure museum based out of a working sewage pumping station right next to the Inner Harbor, holds a Big Trucks Day and every year it’s always PACKED with young families.

Look, I’m a grown man and even >I< wouldn’t mind a garbage truck birthday party…. If I got to drive one…