Defending myself

For some reason I always have something new to say when I throw out the garbage. I throw out the garbage 3x a week and lately I haven't experienced any conflicts. I've been doing good for the past couple of weeks but today I got yelled at again and I finally fought back. There are two trucks and I was waiting to throw out the paper/cardboard that doesn't touch food since today is Monday. Mondays are the days when you can usually throw away that stuff. As I was waiting for the guy to open the bag, he looks at me and asks me a question. I couldn't hear him though because he was wearing a face mask since he probably didn't want to get sick from dealing with the trash. It's popular to wear face masks here. Anyway I didn't answer right away and then he asked me again what was in my bucket and that it was the wrong day to throw the trash and that today was the day to throw out paper/cardboard. I was frustrated since I just wanted to throw away the trash and I had paper/cardboard in my bucket so I quickly retorted angrily in Chinese (of course), "No, this is paper" since he was asking me if the things in my trash were touching food. I was so mad because he asked me although you can see that I wasn't throwing the wrong stuff. I'm glad I finally got a little snappy since when I first got here, they would always yell at me. After I left I gave a glare to the other worker lol I'm sure he just wanted to make sure I wasn't throwing things in the wrong bag but it was just annoying that he questioned me when I'm sure he didn't question other people. I also had paper and cardboard so I don't know why he would assume I mixed everything up. Okay, just had to vent a little bit :)

-Chihchat