Fragmented sentences

I mean starting out an essay in one tense and switching to another, sometimes in the same paragraph. It's fine in a colorful story about tossing your grandma's cornstarch in a dumpster, but not in a formal analysis of, oh, Russian propaganda techniques during the second World War. 

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By the way, Is your last post for me? "be sure to shred the paperwork"

Actually, that one was for GG.  In LA, illegal dumping is a huge problem, since it's very expensive to dispose of stuff.  If you have junk to get rid of which won't fit in the residential containers the city provides  -   or qualify for "large item pickup"   -   you can spend $200 to have it hauled privately.  So people often leave it on a quiet stretch of road, or do what GG did.  Businesses often keep their rented bins locked.  The police have been known to go through illegally dumped trash to find incriminating evidence (to identify the owner.)

  - A.

I'm not too worried about the owneres of the Piggly Wiggly in Marked Tree, Arkansas, coming after me 15 years after the deed was done.

(All you have to do is say "Piggly Wiggly" to my sister and she starts laughing to this day, though.)

I 'spected as much.