People Don't Read

I found this to be incredibly amusing when I first saw it. Apparently, my building participates in a phone book recycling program at some point during the year, and during that time, phone books are brought to this designated point. From there, they are taken to wherever it is that they go, but people don't always "get" when that special time of year is, and fall into a sort of habit. You know that habit, right? The one where you find, say, a phone book some six months later and remember in the back of your mind that you could take this item to "that place" and drop it off and be done with it. Now, what to do when you get there and see this:

Wow, so you're left with a choice. I mean, it's January, so the next recycling time isn't until September. That's nine months away, and who can hold onto a phone book you don't want that much longer much less take the chance of forgetting it again during that special and mystical time when you can dump it? And what if you're not alone:

Why, who's going to notice one more sitting there on top?