Here's some hilarity for you
 

A week or so ago we had a little brunch party with mimosas while watching the local bike race. The finishing stretch passes our front porch.

One of my neighbors decided to pitch the idea for a multi family tag sale and everyone being mildly inebriated at 11:00 am thought it would be a swell idea.

Same neighbor places an ad in a local paper (not, oddly, the paper owned by our other neighbor who is also participating in the tag sale)

Organizing neighbor goes away for the week and hasn't returned yet for her tag sale. Newspaper owning neighbor was never told the actual day nor consulted for "firming up" so she isn't gonna be selling.

I am so far behind with the house that I am not going to be able to participate/sell either.

The thing was listed in the paper for a 10:00am start time. Since 8:00am the looky lous have been circling the block. They've now started to park and are all standing across the street from Organizing neighbor's house, waiting. It's about 9:45.

I'm wondering if I should go out and let them of the hook or just watch and see how weird people are.

Any chance this could turn ugly?

Film at 11? :lol:

OH KIDS TODAY! They have no stamina!

After a while I went out and semi explained the sitch. The upshot of it was that there wasn't gonna be a tag sale today.

That only steeled their resolve and they began interrogating me about drafting tables, and all manner of knick knack.

I could have sworn I just told them I knew nothing about it.

But I have been told I have the look of someone who knows about who is selling the drafting tables.

After ANOTHER HOUR of standing near and on her porch they reluctantly dispersed.

They were like cocaine rats; they kept hitting the bar over and over even though nothing was coming out.

That same simile can be used to describe many of the people I work with... :right:

The last two times I had garage sales, I advertised them for an 8:00 AM Saturday start. Goddamn if one person didn't knock on my door at 6:30 AM, and several others between 7:00 and 8:00.

There's a certain amount of unbridled avarice in chronic Salers. I find it a bit scary.

You know, it has been a while since I have been yard saleing (sailing?). It's gotten so bad that I didn't attend my neighbors moving sale (IMO the best kind of yard sale) last week, and he had some really nice stuff out.

I did go to the book giveaway a woman posted on freecycle. I picked up this and the Harry Abrams Edition Illustrated Hobbit (1977).



From here
My precious.:D

My parents used to always post a huge sign on the door that anyone who knocked before 8 AM would be sold NOTHING, not at ANY price.

HaHa.

How about

THE PITBULLS WILL NOT BE BROUGHT IN THE HOUSE UNTIL 8:00 AM

I'd say "saling." "Saleing/sale-ing" might be more explanatory, but you really don't need to keep that silent E.

Nice coup on the book, though! :thumbsup:

ALWAYS include, no early shows in any ads.... but that still does not always solve the problem.