Wednesday, August 27 2008: The Petite Divestiture
It took me a while to hop on the bandwagon, and my efforts to date could not properly be called great. I have a pair of car ramps that I have owned for close to a decade. The ramps are great - steel, rated to 5000 lb, except that they are too tall for either the Jetta or the Rabbit, so they have lain in my garage for years unused. During the great spring cleaning of 2008, they were moved out to the side of the garage where they have lain for the last 4 months or so.
Today I came home from work and vowed to get rid of the motherfuckers right now. I crafted a make-shift FREE sign out of a hastily torn off flap from a cardboard box and dragged the ramps out to the road in front of my house, positioned the sign and went about my business checking mail and dragging the recently emptied trashcans away from the street. I had not finished walking back into the garage to close the door when someone had pulled into my driveway to haul off my unwanted shit.
It lacks the style of leaving a barbell in front of a Sports Authority, but it has to be a some kind of record time to divestment.
Today I came home from work and vowed to get rid of the motherfuckers right now. I crafted a make-shift FREE sign out of a hastily torn off flap from a cardboard box and dragged the ramps out to the road in front of my house, positioned the sign and went about my business checking mail and dragging the recently emptied trashcans away from the street. I had not finished walking back into the garage to close the door when someone had pulled into my driveway to haul off my unwanted shit.
It lacks the style of leaving a barbell in front of a Sports Authority, but it has to be a some kind of record time to divestment.
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