1st June 2021
Loaded with three old televisions I headed off to Best Buy the US equivalent of PC World, where I had been assured they would take them to be recycled.
I walked in and found the customer service desk without being accosted by an eager sales associate trying to sell me a smart TV.
Half expecting a “ sorry we don’t do that anymore” response, I was delighted, and relieved that I wouldn’t be carrying them in the back of the truck till the end of time.
The only down side was the cost, thirty dollars each “to do a real recycle” as apposed to “dumping them into the lake”. She took my money and called for an assistant to collect them from the truck.
I parked in front of the main doors, and a young chap with a cart came to meet me.
We loaded all the TVs, it was then that I noticed the PC base unit that I forgot to mention. I asked the lad if there was room on the cart, a little sheepishly.
“Yea throw it on there’s room” which is exactly what I did.
I was in the truck, and down the road before he was through the front door.
I felt that I had spent enough money, and I was giving them a gift, anyway I don’t think they would notice.
If I write that I have two broken legs, then they did, and they found me.
I bought the last fifteen gallons of rocks to fill the bed on the deck, then headed off to Menards for more timber.
I have noticed that a lot of young men walk leaning back on their heels, they do that to counterbalance their enormous fat gut. I saw one today with his wife a son in tow, I wanted to say to the kid, “take note, get reinforced heels in your shoes for when you grow up”.
Poo man chew turned up this afternoon to suck out the dog muck. I had stirred it up earlier to make it a little easier to suck it up. It didn’t take long, but because of the sandy soil, he probably took a couple of cubic yards of soil with it, although it didn’t make much difference to the capacity, about a years worth.
“See you next spring”
Another Lifetime to go 