"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>
>> When I *did* put out an older but running vacuum cleaner because I'd
> gotten
>> one much lighter-weight with more power and which didn't require those
>> stupid bags, the sign I put on it read: "I WORK. TAKE ME." Voila, it
>> was
>> gone before nightfall.
>>
>> Jill
>
> The record for me was for an old gas grill. 15 minutes.
>
> Funniest was an old and very long sofa. It did not fit well into the
> little
> Escort station wagon so the guy had his wife walk behind the wagon and
> hold
> it balanced.
>
>

Six years ago, our city had a flood. We saw poop floating in the water in
the basement, from sewage that had seeped in. Ugly red chairs I got from my
grandma, when she moved into a smaller place. They got wet. Put them on
the street. Someone took them. Little Tykes easel, with water sloshing
around in the legs (dirty water!). A lady came and took it! Speakers wet
with dirty water. Someone took 'em! We couldn't believe it. Sometimes the
people asked if they could have them and I told them the truth. They took
the stuff anyway. The couch that had been through 2 floods? We destroyed
it so no one would want it. The entertainment center that had also been
through 2 floods. We destroyed that, too! Yuck.

Dawn