Wandered around on Saturday enjoying the not as intensely hot as it could be for this time of year summer weather and also walked between the raindrops at times on Sunday in my neck of Norwich and saw ample evidence that this is the season of yard sales, tag sales, garage sales and Soupy Sales (checking to see if you were still with me).
Sounds like a quibble, I know, but for those engaging/organizing and having these sales would you please put the date on the signs that you insist on sticking on utility poles and slow-moving, recently retired young-at-heart-but-not-on-the-calendar, senior citizens? Please?
And let's get something straight between us, okay? Antiques and old stuff and antiques are not the same thing and are not interchangeable words. All ducks are birds but not all birds are ducks, and that's true as well of both antiques and old stuff. For instance, I have a garage (and a basement, too, I just realized) filled with old stuff. Very little of it I will admit would rise to the level of antique.
Yes, I'm sure you're correct in pointing out that putting 'old crap' on the sign, while truthful more than either of us would like, will probably not help anyone get it from their garage or yard to points beyond the property but we need to be fair with one another.
A well-liked PBS TV program is not called The Old Junk Road Show, except in many living rooms I suspect across the country, so let's vow to make candor our watchword and ease up on the use of 'antiques,' no matter how desperate for space in our garages we are.
-bill kenny
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