It must be trash day!

If Thompson's lucky enough, we're home Tuesdays when the garbage truck makes its round through our neighborhood.  For months now (perhaps nearly a year), the garbage men have invited Thompson onto the truck's back step to help them dump the trash.  In doing so, he's learned what each of the levers do and how to operate them.  Over the past couple weeks, there has been a new guy working the back, so Thompson has observed from the driveway knowing he doesn't know Thompson often helps dump the trash.  Well, this week, the driver came to back of the truck, informed the new garbage man of Thompson's role, instructed Thompson stand on the step and show the new guy how he could operate the controls by himself.  And if that was enough...he then made sure Thompson went to the other side to empty the second garbage can attached to the dumping mechanism.  What a Tuesday!