Fri Dec 16, 2005 10:05 am
The title of this thread reminds me of a true story:
At work, the owner of the neighboring business cleaned out his garage and loaded up his dumpster with a bunch of cool stuff. I got a working air compressor, a sledge hammer, a tile cutter, and tons of other perfectly good things I could use out of there. Hey, I'm not above dumpster diving for perfectly good stuff.
The workers at the business on the other side of us saw me hanging out of the dumpster and carefully placing the loot up against the building for further evaluation. One of the women (no idea what her name is) that works there came over and asked if I was keeping the piece of framed artwork because she could use the frame. I told her she could have it so she took it.
Later in the day at about quitting time a bunch of the guys I work with were hanging out in the back parking lot smoking. I don't smoke but I often hang out there with them and BS (I'm good at that). They had no knowledge of my earlier transaction with the woman next door.
Right then, she comes walking out of her door on her way out to her car. We were all watching her when she noticed me standing there and yelled, "Thank you!" I replied, "Yep, no problem!". I turned and all of the guys were looking at me like, wtf?
I said, "I got women all over the world thankin' me."
Man, that brought the house down. I didn't know you could nearly choke while smoking but several of them did. It must have made quite an impression on them because they told that story for months.
One of them told me I should write a book of my adventures. Maybe someday I will, but right now I'm too busy adventuring.
