I just love watching people wander around my driveway, looking at all the crap treasures that I no longer want and paying ridiculous amounts of money mere pennies for it.
My favorite customer of the day was a nice old man who couldn't decided if he wanted to buy my friend's old, black leather couch. He kept coming back, looking at it, talking to me about it, then walking away. He would come back a few minutes later, rub his scruffy chin, ask a few more questions, walk away again. Finally I convinced him to lay down on it. That did it. He lay there for at least 10 minutes, basking in the sun and soaking up the heat from the sun-warmed black leather.
In the course of our many conversations, he revealed that he needed a new couch because his old one was falling apart. . . because he didn't have a roof on his house . . . he was going to put one on eventually . . . but the couch kept getting wet when it rains. He later assured me that he did have another house which actually had a roof on it. I never did figure out why he was furnishing the roofless house.
I always seem to end a day of yard saling with a mind full of questions: WHY does one buy a couch to put in a roofless house? WHAT compells a person to buy a used bathing suit? Or underwear? Or socks? WHAT would a teenager want with an iron candlestick in the shape of twisting grape leaves? Was it IMMORAL of me to sell those Coke glasses that I got for free with my McDonald's meal last week? And WHY would someone pay a dollar for them?
And so, farewell black-leather-couch-man. I hope you made it home alright. And I wish you many comfortable naps in your roofless house. Maybe you should've bought an umbrella to go with the couch.
4 comments:
I have a friend whose parents have been building their 'dream home' for nearly 10 years now. It's in Oregon, right on the coast. So like your current residence, it pretty much rains on it - and in it - every day.
They have been living there since the framing was complete. That's right, they were furnishing and living in a house with NO WALLS as well as no roof.
I can't explain why your yard sale shopper bought that couch, but I can explain my friend's parents' behavior.
They're complete nut jobs.
That's hilarious! Please tell me he had something to tie it down with and didn't drive away with one hand on the wheel and one on the couch?!!
Living this close to Mexico, yard sales are just a way of re-stocking the Nogales Tourist Trap. The trucks pull up with cattle grates on the sides and fill it to the brim with crap for a nickle. It is amazing to watch one driving down the road. I always wonder, how do they get that past customs without spending an entire day.
Hey that couch looks familiar
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