Feeling weird

So when I'm driving around on trash night I always pass other scrappers and no one seams friendly an they always look over with this weird almost angry look on there face I know that's your compitition an all but ****. Anyone else notice this? Has anyone ever had any problems with local scrappers?

PTS, why didn't you jump in your mail truck and chase them down ! lol

I've only ever had one guy wave a nice ''Hey fellow scrapper'' wave to me. The rest are so bent on getting to the scrap before anyone else they look like crazy people with wild eyes, frizzed out hair and a heavy foot. (No offense to anyone with frizzy hair! but you get what I'm saying). You'd think more folks would be accommodating and polite but its a dirty business in more ways than one i found out. Sheesh.

Seems like this is going to be a breeze for me. I also collect autographs. That is way worse to deal with. People cut ahead, climb up your back, send their kids under your legs, scream and holler, shove, push, pull, and everything beyond and in between.

Compared to that, dirty looks and insults are easy to deal with.

I've noticed it but never had any problems with them

Maybe they're jacked up on meth and paranoid that you'll take their scrap.

Lol @ idaho scrapper - That's hella funny!!

Yep - noticed this even before I started scrapping.

I started to watch the scrappers working the same area as me caught them up at the scrap yards from time to time and bull ****ed with them....... once they get to know me i start buying there computers before they hit the scales. Tell them ill get them a flyer next time i see them. by the time they see you next they got a pile of computers for you and just salivating at what else you can pay more on. also helps if your yard likes to lowball on prices.

I live in the sticks and I only see one competitor and we tease each other. I get out and yell, "what are ya'll doin' in my dumpsters ?"...then we shoot the breeze. It's a husband and wife team. I ask them if they've been to the "other" dumpsters and if they say no, I say, "well, good luck here, I'll go check those out." I'm counting my blessings, 'cause it probably won't be like this much longer.

I'm starting to see small tweaker battles here. Won't be long before it turns into tweaker wars and shuts down scrapping for all of us.

Danm Dee that must be nice. In a 6 mile long 2 mile wide area i have located 10 scrappers that i know. and the guy at the end of my street is even another scrapper. we packed in like sardines down here.

I see my rivals all the time in my and other surrounding towns. I wave or give a thumbs up to them and they shoot back dirty looks, Never got a wave back. Except the one guy from across town stopped and talked to me once when I was walking the dogs.

I never take scrap without asking first. So I go to an auto repair shop and aske what do you do with your scrap? They tell me, we put it out back anyone that wants it can have it (first come first serve) So I start loading it up and another scraper comes by and tells me this is my scrap,I been comming here for years. So I say ok lets go get the owner. The next thing I know they got in thiere truck and left,becuse they knew they lied. This has happend many times.

My favorite experience (scrapper eat scrapper) lesson so far happened about two weeks ago when I was in a dumpster (an enormous one) and throwing everything out over the side...when I got out...it was all gone...I had to laugh at my own idiocy then...scrappers are looking for scrap...i'm sure they were all too happy not to have to climb into the dumpster...and lucky frakers too...they took all my loot. I'll never do that again///

You guys should live next to Mexico for serious competition. Any peice of metal bigger than a foot long laying on the side of the road gets picked up the same day it's dropped. None of these other scrappers are freindly and they seem to really hate the fact that there's a "gringo" scrapper out there.

I found this a interesting read from the past.

It's funny how the scrapping biz has gotten to a normal and regular way of life from what it was many years ago.

I've been doing it off and on for about 60 years. When I started there was very little competition as most looked down at such things.

I can still remember some of the first things I found in peoples trash in alleys. I was mostly looking for copper and other interesting items I could sell, trade or scrap.
I started out with a little red wagon with the wood sides that I would pull along on my adventures. And as always I had my bottle of water with in case I got thirsty. Still have water with me where ever I go as I suppose I became accustomed to it.

The competition came and went over the years until more people believed it was a easy way to make some cash. Now it's as normal as normal is.