| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Mar 02 09:36PM -0800 
 On 03/02/2017 10:20 AM, Michael Black wrote:
 
 > We had some warmish weather for the past two weeks, though now it's cold
 > again, but spring can't be far off, and then garage sales.  We aren't the
 > lucky ones who have them all year around.
 
 EXCEPT holiday weekends and weeks when it was assumed to rain on
 Thursday, Friday or Saturday.  Yard sales used to be a lot better when
 people had to pay to put an ad in the paper.  Now, since Craigslist is
 free, people figure "Oh, I don't feel like getting up this morning,
 let's do the sale next Saturday...".  Even worse, they say "Corner of
 Longden and Santa Anita" so enraged shoppers can't throw a brick through
 their window if they drove tens of miles to a good-sounding sale only to
 find NOTHING.  Almost as bad -- the 'corner of' people don't put up a
 sign, just figure you'll drive around the nearby area until you get lucky.
 
 I swear I'd laugh and applaud if I saw somebody else heave a brick
 through their window.
 
 
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 Cheers, Bev
 "My life outside of USENET is so full of love and kindness that I have
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              | Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com>: Mar 03 05:36AM -0800 
 On 3/2/2017 9:36 PM, The Real Bev wrote:
 
 > sign, just figure you'll drive around the nearby area until you get lucky.
 
 > I swear I'd laugh and applaud if I saw somebody else heave a brick
 > through their window.
 
 Then there are the signs with no date. And the corresponding people that
 never take their signs down. No date - no go.
 
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              | Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>: Mar 03 01:02PM -0500 
 
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              | The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Mar 03 01:26PM -0800 
 On 03/03/2017 05:36 AM, Bob F wrote:
 >> through their window.
 
 > Then there are the signs with no date. And the corresponding people that
 > never take their signs down. No date - no go.
 
 And the signs on corners with tiny light letters -- suitable for
 pedestrians, but NOT for drivers :-(
 
 OTOH, if these people were smart they never would have bought stuff they
 were willing to sell for 5 cents or less on the dollar!
 
 
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 Cheers, Bev
 "If you put the government in charge of the desert, there would
 be a sand shortage within ten years."       -- M. Friedman (?)
 
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