The shop gets a makeover

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:34 pm

So, we're cruisin down the road and see a yardsale right? We mosey on up there and nose around a little to see if they've got anything good. The usual questions of "do you have any pellet guns, archery equipment or pocket knives?" They said No. So we end up getting a pair of vice grips, a nice overhead flourescent light and a nice flourescent table lamp. And there sits this nice big metal desk, with a price tag of $3, now i've been trying to hunt one of these up for my primary work area, but with yardsale season just starting up we hadn't found one yet. We bought it, but we don't have a truck. We've got a litle Plymouth colt nicknamed "the blue winged teal", and we've just bought a desk that's the size of the car! We've hauled alot of stuff on the ol' girl, shes got 125K and still runs like a top. So, we roll it up onto the trunk, strap her down and creep 25 miles back to the homestead to unload it. Was afraid we might flip over going up a big hill on the way home. Shoulda seen the looks we got

People gawking and point fingers, shaking thier heads and laughing. But let'em laugh, I'm the one with a new shop desk

Diligence · Post by **Diligence** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:44 pm

Great find MM! I love yard sale "junk"....nothing but treasures if you ask me.

BUT...I would jhave looked twice too. Are those really just black rubber tie downs?

...good thing it wasn't windy, you could have ended up in Kansas.

J

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 7:19 pm

Diligence wrote:Great find MM! I love yard sale "junk"....nothing but treasures if you ask me.

BUT...I would jhave looked twice too. Are those really just black rubber tie downs? ...good thing it wasn't windy, you could have ended up in Kansas.

J

Yep, just rubber ties. i'm glad it wasn't windy too

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:04 pm

Good find MM and that thin wide drawer will get a lot of use.
In all it looks like it was a good but unsafe journey.

OO to be young and foolish again.

I miss those old days.

MITCH RAPP · Post by **MITCH RAPP** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 8:22 pm

Muskrat; WOW! I'am glad they didn't also have an 8 foot couch for

sale!

agteacher2 · Post by **agteacher2** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:02 pm

Hey MM,

There might be a joke in this somewhere. You might be a redneck if .....

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:13 pm

agteacher2 wrote:Hey MM,

There might be a joke in this somewhere. You might be a redneck if .....

knowtracks · Post by **knowtracks** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:23 am

Every old scooter trash knows that you can strap anything on with enough bungies.