Monday, August 16, 2004

Movin' On, doo doo doo, doo doo doo

So, on Saturday, we do the whole, helping my wife's grandmother do her moving sale. Which was nice, as I enjoy spending nice days outside in a garage watching what people will buy if it's cheap enough.

Butt ugly luggage for instance. But she was "an artist" (she had a small mohawk and big boots in the summertime, so she didn't have to mention that she was, but she managed to at least 4 times in 3 minutes), and was using it for her art supplies, not for vacations, so she won't be embarassed at airports. She'll instead impress her friends with the irony of making beautiful uptown art out of an ugly pea green hard case suitcase.

But enough about her. More about the fat, 40 year old man who lived with his parents whom yelled at us for not knowing what kind of motor was in the lawn mower that we had sold 5 hours earlier. It wasn't my lawm mower, dude, why should I have to know? Why do you have to know? The other half of the sale was down in Grandma's basement, so he then went down there and looked into every nook and cranny of her place and pointed out faulty wiring and told her she's lucky she's not going to jail for selling a house with illegal wiring.

Then he bought a little handheld blackjack video game. He was a Man, he didn't spend the whole 50 cents on it, he bargained down to a quarter. Dude showed us how to do the last minute of the garage sale deal.

Have you ever pulled into a small restaurant's parking lot, and you see one of the cooks in the back lot taking out the garbage, and he looks at you, and gives you that "I can't believe you want to eat HERE" headshakes and sad looks. That's never a good sign. And they used canned mushrooms on their mushroom burger. Not cool.

Oh yeah, the sale. Went well. Grandma made more money they she wanted to (not that she particularly cared, she just felt she had to have a moving sale. And she had the neatest damn moving sale ever. People were in awe of the organization of the items and neatness), and we got to take home and cool stuff left over at the end for free!

I got a grilled cheese sandwich maker!

Give me a high five!

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