I hate garage sales
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Topic: I hate garage sales
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Subject: I hate garage sales
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 1:06pm
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So every year our village has a community wide garage sale. It starts on Thursday and lasts until Sunday I beleive. During this time there are umpteen garage sales throughout the village with eager beaver pro hunters out enforce. Where we used to live was right in the thick of it as we were on one of the main thorougfares. However, when we moved last year we ended up on a cul de sac where there is our house and two others. None of us is having a garage sale, yet I am watching the endless stream of cars drive down our road hit the turn around and drive back by. Even when cars see people turning around with the lost looks on their faces because they didnt find a table full of old underwear and baby clothes to fondle through, they still drive down. It convinces me that garage sailors are among the dumbest of the dumb. I don't know what it is that annoys me so much about it, but I swear I am tempted to put up a 4x8 sign at the corner stating that there is no reason to drive down this road as there are no lost treasures to haggle over and no my fricking grill that I have temporarily sitting just outside my garage is not for sale!
No wonder I usually try as hard as I can to make sure I am out of town this weekend every year.
/rant.
TL/DR: I'm a grumpy middle aged man that hates people who frequent garage sales. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 1:52pm
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oldpbnoob wrote:Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 3:02pm
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I thought that was deliberate. I liked it. We have a club here that is called The Garage and because of the heavier metal music played along with it's slightly limp wristed clientel it is pronounced "the gayrage" dont know why I felt the need for that little ditty, I just couldn't get it out my head. Damn garage sailors. |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 3:11pm
 Think of them as roaming street pirates in search of booty in their mini vans and station wagons. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 3:26pm
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I like garage sales. For every 5 garage sales, there is one with something interesting for a decent price. A lot of the time I look for beer steins. I think my favorite garage sale find was the program from the first Devils game. ------------- 
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Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 3:49pm
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I actually blame my first brush with the law on a "garage sale" (The closest we have here are car boot sales. No cars or boots for sale) I was about 13 and our school had an annual car boot sale. It actually had been a laugh the last few years because all my friends got dragged along by their parents as well so we could just muck about while the parents talked about mortgages or something. So anyway, We had only gone because my dad was looking for a new power sander and thought he could get one on the cheap. So he must have spotted one and thought somebody had their eye on it. It was my mate Jamal's mum and he was right, she did have her eye on it. I was about 10 feet away from her/the sander so he shouted over to me with the kind of urgency and fury that a child just cant ignore from his father. He shouted "Richard!! Go get that black and decker!!!!" Next thing, my dad's been arrested and I'm a "racist"
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 4:03pm
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Well that was elaborate ------------- 
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 4:11pm
| All part of the crap joke ambush my friend. |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 5:28pm
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I love garage/yard sales. A lot. I don't know why, but I really do. Going to them, that is. Hosting them stinks.
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 29 June 2012 at 5:34pm
Ayer matey, hoist the pink flamingo and put li'l billy on lookout in his carseat strapped to the luggage rack . . . we be takin' this here Caravan in search of rich plunderin's today. ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 30 June 2012 at 9:32am
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A buddy and I were tooling about the neighborhood on our longboards when we happened upon a garage sale. We stopped to see what there was, leaving our boards in the yard. A few minutes later, I see some lady and the proprietor of the sale negotiating a price on our boards! The conversation was pretty much as follows: "How much for these?" "Hm, I haven't seen those before. $5 each." Let's just say there was palm-to-face contact... ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 30 June 2012 at 9:34am
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Put a sign up at the intersection. "No garage sales here" ------------- 
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 30 June 2012 at 2:23pm
| I'd like garage sales a lot more if I could be bothered to get up early enough to beat the old people to them. |
Posted By: stick_boy_2002
Date Posted: 30 June 2012 at 7:51pm
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don't call them garage sales aroud here. its a junk sale. ------------- 
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 01 July 2012 at 4:05am
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I wish there were more of those sales around here. While 99.9999% of them are crap, you can always pick up some obscure tool that someone doesn't need anymore. KBK ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 01 July 2012 at 10:41am
I usually find that what the old people are looking for varies so much from what I'm looking for that we rarely overlap. Except maybe paperbacks. |