21st February 2019
There was someone on the tall pine unit almost the moment Kelli released her finger on the Marketplace post. Then this morning it was a mad dash to clean up the shelves and buy some shelf supports that were missing. The closest hardware store is near to the Design Yard called Graafschap Hardware. It sells just about everything you need to start a small war. Racks of guns and ammunition makes it a scary place, including the guy behind the counter. He looks like he was the result of a mating experiment between a bear and the whole of ZZ Top. Needless to say he wasn’t inpressed with my purchase of eight shelf supports. I expected him to say “ Hey buddy, you won’t kill anyone with those” to which I would have replied “ Depends where you shove em’ punk” now that would have been the last words I ever spoke, and, it was just as well I just smiled and left the store. He didn’t know just how close to death he was.
The lady eventually came to pick up the furniture, after a bit of confusion, so that was a good sale.
We then drove up to Hudsonville with some new bits and to collect the big white mother chest that had been there too long, and anyway we think we have sold that beast, for collection on Sunday.
We are trying a tactic of offering a weekend sale to a couple of selected items to see if we can move them. We will be the same thing on Marketplace.
On the way back we had a minor altercation with a parked car that spoiled the evening. It happened when Kelli reversed the truck out of a parking space, and walloped a Honda parked in a non-designated area. Our Toyota was unmarked, but the Honda came off worse with a dented front wing.
Another Lifetime to go 