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The old desk
« on: Dec 6th, 2005, 8:04pm » |
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The other day everyone of the four members of our team were together at the same place at the same time so we all went to lunch.
On the way, we stepped aside a large pile of office desks piled on the sidewalk as trash. I noticed a wood desk among the discarded cheap metal office standard of recent time. I made a mental note to check it out on the way back.
Later that day my boss helped me load the desk into the truck. We underestimated its weight but we managed. I put it in our office at home and am typing on it now. It's not pretty but it now has a place and noticed in a new and different light.
Sometimes you need to stop and look at what appears to be a pile of trash and look deeper. Take the time to at least pause and see what may be of no value to some or a treasury to another.
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« Reply #1 on: Dec 6th, 2005, 8:29pm » |
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You're so right. I've got an OLD school desk that was in an OLD school house at Red Hill Texas way back when. It has the ink well and everything. It's still just as sturdy as it was when my mother-in-law was a kid going to school in that old school house and when my Bill was a kid going to school in that old school house. They were "junking" all the trash in the school house when I rescued it about 40 years ago. I love the old thing.
What people throw away amazes me, but my house is crowded with stuff no one wanted.
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Re: The old desk
« Reply #2 on: Dec 6th, 2005, 8:45pm » |
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on Dec 6th, 2005, 8:29pm, BarbaraD wrote:| What people throw away amazes me |
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Some things need to be thrown away 
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on Dec 6th, 2005, 8:29pm, BarbaraD wrote:You're so right. I've got an OLD school desk that was in an OLD school house at Red Hill Texas way back when. It has the ink well and everything. It's still just as sturdy as it was when my mother-in-law was a kid going to school in that old school house and when my Bill was a kid going to school in that old school house. They were "junking" all the trash in the school house when I rescued it about 40 years ago. I love the old thing.
What people throw away amazes me, but my house is crowded with stuff no one wanted.
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Re: The old desk
« Reply #4 on: Dec 7th, 2005, 1:31am » |
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Great story Steve. !
I am so glad you could look beneath the surface and find a jewel. 
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Re: The old desk
« Reply #5 on: Dec 7th, 2005, 2:22am » |
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Yep i'm a bower bird myself.
The stuff I have picked up a the local rubbish dump and from what other people regard as trash has saved me a few bob over the years.
I once picked up a solid steel 6ft x 3ft welding bench with engineer vice, that was about 20 years ago and I still use it.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
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Re: The old desk
« Reply #6 on: Dec 7th, 2005, 10:26am » |
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I dug my first guitar out of a dumpster back in 1973.
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Re: The old desk
« Reply #7 on: Dec 7th, 2005, 2:46pm » |
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I still had lot of golf balls rummaged that way.
Of course the dumpster is the best place for recovering old condoms, and takes the embarrassment out of the purchase for teenagers. Gather 'em up, wash 'em out and hang 'em over a pencil.  
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Re: The old desk
« Reply #8 on: Dec 7th, 2005, 4:10pm » |
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LMAO Charlie. When I find a used condom in a dumpster I simple turn it inside out and shake the fuck out of it.
My story about the desk, while true, is a cloaked attempt to ask that the Gulf Coast not be left out as trash. What I read in the National press doesn't bode well for the City.
Sorry..I can't help myself.
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Re: The old desk
« Reply #9 on: Dec 7th, 2005, 4:55pm » |
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I've been known to do a little dumpster diving in my frivolous youth, but no more. Now it's yard sales and flea markets! YEAH.
And, Steve, I too hope the Gulf Coast is not set out on the sidewalk like so much trash. I love the Gulf states and have visited many times. Unfortunately, I don't think that NO will ever be able to get back to the city it once was - and maybe that's not all such a bad thing. I'm hoping that they rebuild parts of the city that are above sea level, but I just can't see the sense in rebuilding below sea level. You know the same thing will just happen again.
I'm praying that the "powers that be" are using this tragedy as a learning experience and will build a new, better city on safer ground.
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