garage sale
September 13th, 2007 by Lawrence David
chris and i had a garage sale a couple of weekends before we went to honduras.
it was incredible how win-win garage sales can be: we somehow convinced people to give us $125 and we cleared up the clutter in our apartment. all we had to do was sit down in the sun and play scrabble for a couple of hours.
interesting garage sale observation: the vast majority of our sales weren’t made to little old ladies — they were made to pairs of middle age men. it seems that in cambridge, it’s common practice for blue-collar, clearly heterosexual men to partner up and frequent garage sales. they even play wingmen, goading each other on:
dude #1: what do i need a pressure cooker for?
dude #2: doesn’t matter. that’s a fine pressure cooker. buy it.
dude #1: ok. [hands me $5]
sean even came by to sell a guitar and inspect my bike tires.
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