Back in my younger days, my home base was a burnt orange room where I played my guitar, listened to records, did homework and dreamed of being an adult someday. I must say that being a kid was way more fun than being an adult . When you're an adult, you have responsibilities. Those responsibilities grow once you become a homeowner. As a homeowner, theres always something that needs done. It's worth it though.
George Carlin once said, a house was just a place to store your stuff. As you acquire more stuff, you need a bigger house!!! Or, in my case, you bring your stuff out of the house and put it in your garage. Once a year, I would go through my garage and bring everything outside and spread it out on my drive way and in my yard. We probably should have had the occasional garage sales to thin out the amount of stuff we had, but instead, we usually just took it down to the end of the street and let the trash dwellers take it away for free. Those people are like vultures and they would usually take ANYTHING we put down there!!! I once had a BOX OF ROCKS at the end of the driveway and within an hour, it was GONE!!!
One day, I was in the middle of my annual garage cleaning. I had several bikes out on our drive way, our lawnmowers, various tubs of children's toys as well as tons of other STUFF!!! I headed into the very back of our garage and loaded up an arm full of assorted garden tools. As I walked out of our garage, I noticed three older women and a couple men curiously looking over every piece of STUFF that I had temporarily placed in our yard. " Can I help you?" I said to the small gathering of strangers carousing in my yard and going through my STUFF!!!. "How much for this lawnmower", one guy asked me as he was inspecting the blade underneath. "What?" I said. Before I could speak, a woman asked me, "how much for the girls bike?"
With a bit of distain in my voice I said, " I'M CLEANING MY GARAGE... GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!!!!" "This isn't a garage sale!!!!"
They all shot me a look like I was the biggest dick in the world as they slowly made their way down my drive way!! But not before, one of them looked though the stuff I had down by our mailbox at the end of our drive. I can't' remember what was down here, but they took it!!! Probably a broken lamp or something!!!
Just another tale from the ORANGE ROOM and all the right STUFF!!!!
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