trash talk

Check it. I'm walking down the street and what do I spy but a sparkly granite headless angel torso leaning just so against a trashcan. As you can imagine, I have a couple of questions:

1) Did someone actually have this thing in their house and did it, once upon a time, have a head?

2) What suddenly made them want to get rid of it? In a mad fit of spring cleaning did he/she wake up and say "Honey, that headless granite angel has got to go!" or "It's either the headless granite angel or me!" P.S. Don't ever issue ultimatums about tchotchkes unless you really mean it.

3) How did he/she come to the decision to just lean the thing against a trashcan? Did he/she try to put it in the can and then when the wings wouldn't go in and setting it down next to the trashcan didn't seem obvious enough, he/she decided to jauntily tip it against the can?

I come from a long line of hoarders and recognize that any attempt to decoratively pile or shape one's trash is a cry for help. The clutterer is having trouble parting with his/her junk and has decided to instead spend some time molding the junk into something pretty. One day I found my mom trying to clean out her multiple purses which were always stuffed with a strange amalgam of items which might lead one to think that a soldier at war had a penchant for ladies magazines and Sweet n Low. The dining room table was covered with the contents of her bag collection. As I watched her sift through the remnants of old mints, doctors' appointment cards, tissues, and pink artificial sweetener packets, I noticed that she had constructed a small log cabin from the wrapped tampons she always carried in case of emergency. Personally, I was impressed, though the cabin - as well as everything else - got swept back into the bags about five minutes after she completed the roof.

All this to say that I think the angel on the trashcan was the previous owner's tampon cabin; a signal to the garbage person that another cramped NYC apartment had hit a saturation point and something had to give.