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Anticlimactic
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I can see the postwoman on her rounds and she's stopping at my house.
I try not to get excited, don't want to greet her at the door, instead I count to 60 after hearing the slamming of the mailbox and go outside - it's a delivery notice. There's a parcel at the nearest postal outlet, which, checking google maps, isn't very near at all. Not at all. And so I have to wait until Wednesday and plot a route northwards to try and find it.
But there's a parcel here...
For Sale - Helicopter Pilot's Helmet - $125.00
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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For Sale: 1 Helicopter Pilot’s Helmet.
I've tried to sell it before, with limited (no) success. I put it down to a failure in copy writing and the fact that it was probably priced "Too Good To be True". So I've raised the price and re-listed it on Craigslist and Kijiji in the Sports Section. I'm pretty sure it will sell now....
Saturday Night at 7-11
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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It's a Saturday night, the week is done (for a day), I've survived and I'm celebrating at home with a glass of rum.
I'm famished.
And restless.
And I think of taking myself to a bar, but there are none handy, and I've got to be up early to go to the flea market. So I compromise and decide upon 7/11.
Now it's not the same, not by a long shot, and while it will do nothing for my restlessness it might (somewhat) curb my hunger...
This is what it's come to. Saturday night at 7-11.
Garage Sales 2010 - Week 7
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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The end of May and it should be an amazing garage sale weekend.
Should be. Were it not for the snow and the rain that greeted me when I woke up.
My map, I'd drawn it up last night, Scarboro (annual parade of garage sales), another one at the Mt. Pleasant Community Center in the NW, that would be the day.
But this morning, the rain and the snow, I was pretty sure that Scarboro would call off their parade and so made my way the the Mt. Pleasant Community Center. Which was as well called off, trucks with farmers waiting in the parking lot, but the community center is locked, and there are so few cars waiting that you know it's not going to happen.
On the way back there's a large sale in front of Westworld Computers on Center St. N - I get off the bus and check it out. A few things, books, sodden in the rain and snow, videos, some new candles, a vintage camera, otherwise nothing. Volunteers staffing it, practically giving stuff away, they were hoping to capitalize on the success of the iPad, due to launch today, but it's nasty nasty out and they'll be glad to be rid of it all...
Week seven's a bust.
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