Hopefully this won't be as bad as the Glasgow Ice Cream Wars

Hi and Lois, 8/29/23

Look, I'm just a simple city boy who's always had his trash collected by a municipal service department, and I don't understand the wily ways of suburbia with its advanced public-private partnerships and such. That's why the relationship between Hi and his garbagemen has always puzzled me, as it's often implied that he's paying them directly in some way? I always assumed they were contracted by his HOA or something, but now that I find out that it's actually some kind of anarcho-capitalist situation where different suppliers compete for dominance both by offering superior service for better prices and by using violence to intimidate or eliminate their competitors, I have to admit that I'm a lot more interested.

Blondie, 8/29/23