Story.

I don’t know what this means, but I am sure some of you will laugh when you hear it.

I received a call the other day, from my friend Fred in Columbia. “Ed, you need to come and move some of the stuff your storing in my warehouse” I figure he is tired of looking at it, so I tell him I really appreciate him storing it for me. He replies, “Oh, its not in my way at all, its just that someone ran into the building with a car, and I don’t want anyone stealing your stuff through the hole in the wall!”

“OH” ok, I said.

So, I drag my Father in law to Columbia to pick up my stuff from Fred’s warehouse. It was all my big stuff…. Compressor, Booth type table, motorcycle, lathe, industrial shelving, lawn tractor, and barber chair.

Somewhere along the line, Fred and Bob (my F-I-L) started teasing me about my “stuff”, and asked me where I got one of my “things”.

“Well”, I said “I got that motorcycle from Hector about 1992, when he lived on the south side of Chicago… His neighbor threw it out”

Where did you get that booth table?

“I found it on the side of the highway in 1987, I couldn’t pass it up”

Where did you get the Sears tractor?

“My neighbor in Columbia asked me if I wanted it, he was going to throw it out.. Could you imagine, throwing out a sears tractor??”

Where did you get that shelving”

“sportschannel said get rid of it, so I did, right into my garage!”

Where did you get that barber chair?

“Bill Sawicki, an artist in Chicago gave it to me for fixing something for him”

Where did you get that compressor”

“a friend at ETV in Columbia was getting rid of it, how could I pass up a two stage, 80 gallon industrial compressor? Those things retail for 2k”

“Uh, do you see a trend here Ed?”

He didn’t have to ask about the Lathe…

He had scavenged it out of the garbage where he worked and gave it to me.

I had not paid a red cent for a single thing on that trailer.

I’m not sure what to make of this revelation.

Anyone need a used Crib? The one that all three of my kids grew up in. R has figured out how to climb out of it.

What is that?

Where did I get it?

…In the trash behind the resale shop in Forest Park, Il. about 1997…

Posted on 20 October '04 by , under Uncategorized.