hazardous waste

I've been dreading dealing with the scary pile of hazardous goop we found in the house.. Even with all our dumpsters and runs to the dump there were things that really needed special handling. It's all been sitting on the floor of the garage, but since I still have hopes of starting the foundation work soon, it had to go!

So I finally loaded everything up in the truck and brought it over to one of the Alameda County Hazardous Waste Facilities. It was by far the easiest thing I've done at the new house!

When I pulled up, I hopped out of the truck to start pulling things out, or at least pointing things out.. and I got chastised! "We can handle it, you don't need to do anything," I was told. From pulling up, giving them the form (which they had copies of on a clipboard, in case I hadn't printed it out beforehand.. and it's very short.. only has about 3 lines to fill out) and driving off took under 5 minutes.

Is it wrong of me to wish everything was more like the hazardous waste??