There are different levels of desperation in this world and unfortunately a lot of Detroiters are experiencing varying degrees of despair due to the economy on a daily basis.

Just the other day I was putting gas into my car at the corner of 14 mile and Haggerty. Not exactly a depressed area to say the least when a dude in a well maintained Oldsmobile Bravada pulled up to the pump adjacent to mine.

I figured the guy was about to start pumping gas into his SUV at the incredibly reasonable rate of $2.97 per gallon when I saw something that I couldn’t believe.

This older gentleman in a late model luxury vehicle went from trash bin to trash bin looking for recyclable cans that he could turn in for the whopping ten-cent deposit.

(Honestly, I don’t know what late model means in respect to cars and I never have, but it always sounded cool in an All-Points-Bulletin so I figured I would throw it in.)