1. Revolution isn't always glamorous, and the trash pickup that got underway in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday proved just that.

2. Their mother enlisted them to remove junk for a trash pickup.

3. That causes such hassles for retailers as longer police-response times, as well as less-frequent snow plowing and trash pickup.

4. If this desperately poor city is no longer able to provide services to the neighborhood — trash pickup, fire protection — "we'll just have to deal with it, " she says.

5. All owners pay about $860 a year for private trash pickup and recreational facilities, including parks, community pools and baseball fields.

6. In my world—you've noticed, don't say you haven't—a passing crow might stop and have a conversation about a change in schedule at the city trash pickup, or, for example, the pigeons.