note: The following entry has not one thing to do with letterboxing. It just amuses me.
Let's say you have a couch. It was a wedding present, so you've had it for a long time (17 years to be exact). In that span of time, couch has hosted a menagerie of dogs & cats, babies & children, Thanksgiving guests & book club friends. It's watched (and endured the cheers, tears and moans of the humans perched on it) Super Bowls, terrorist attacks, election returns, home movies, and lots and lots of good and bad sitcoms. It's had dog poop and cat pee and red wine and baby vomit and apple juice cleaned off of its cushions. With all that use, it's certainly gotten a little ragged. For the last 5 years, couch has sported a slipcover to keep its bare spots from showing and to prolong its life a bit. But, that slipcover is annoying...it's always riding up askew. And one day, you've just had enough of couch and its slipcover.
You decide to get a new couch to replace it (this could be a whole entry about what the travesty that it's cheaper to buy a new couch than re-upholster the old one). And said new couch is arriving Tuesday.
And it just so happens that Monday is heavy trash pick-up day.
So, with permission, the kids somersault off and jump up and down on old couch one last time (seriously, they can't do that on new couch and no juice either--but you know they will). And then after saying your goodbyes, you put old couch out by the curb on Sunday evening. There's a bare spot on the den floor now which reminds you of when you moved into this house 16 years ago and didn't have nearly enough furniture to fill it (whole rooms were barren then). Now, there's stuff everywhere (and of course that's a whole different blog entry itself). Sure, you're nostalgic for all the things old couch has seen (and remembering how much stronger your back was when you carried OC into the house all those years ago).
So, my question to you, oh blog readers, is this: How long does old couch stay by the curb before someone picks him up? Answer coming later, but let's hear your guesses...
7 comments:
2 hours. 1 hour for someone to spot it, and another hour to return with the pickup truck. :)
I'm on my way right now.......MO5
(kidding. The last thing I need is another piece of furniture with spilled juice on it. I have nough of that kind already.)
I dunno about where you live, but anything you can hang on the fenceposts outside my sister's Brooklyn apartment lasts ten minutes, maximum.
Ahahaha. Before I read the post I thought, 'where was she that she spotted this couch?'. . .then I read on.
Since you left it out Sunday night, I say it will be gone by Monday morning when you get up for sure. Don't have an exact time, but after kids to bed anyway.
When we were moving we would pitch out quite a bit of old things with the trash on trash day mornings. Trash men would come before 10am and I was always amazed at the things missing before they got there - taken between 7am and 10am! I mean, how many people are out cruising around subdivisions looking at people's trash anyway!
hmmmm. . figuring in that you live in town, rather than suburbs, couch is an attractive color, and you pretreated the cat pee. . my guess is 14 min 36 secs. How'd I do and what's the prize?
All that I know for certain is that it will move quicker if you put a "for sale" sign on it (from personal experience. :)
About 36 mintues =o)
I have to agree with the For Sale sign method... our neighbors had a perfectly good washer and dryer, but it did not handle as large of loaads as they would have liked. They put them out with a Free sign and they sat there for 8 days. They changed the sign to For Sale $200 and they were gone ("stolen") in less than an hour. Quite Amusing!
Cheers!
Rhea
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