A neighbor offered space in his trailer. I jumped on the offer to move the wine-fridge-now-box-on-top-of-which-things-are-stored out of the garage where it's been since Amster gave it to us.
She didn't want it, and she was drinking a lot more wine than I was, at the time. That was a clue. I should've noticed it.
It hasn't worked since the first summer. Having no place inside to reside, it spent the hottest months of the year in the garage, which fried everything worth frying. Since then, it's been a convenient shelf for me, and a constant irritant to TBG.
If Waste Management held a big items pickup this year, I missed it. We're walking past that relic a lot more than we have in the past, on our way to the real fridge on its right it or the paper goods stored on its left. I've heard about its existence every. single. day.
Okay. Maybe every other day.
A part of me wanted to recycle it, but it didn't fit into any of our vehicles. I couldn't find anyone or any service that wanted an item to repair. I was going to try to sell it at the neighborhood garage sale (all my items will be $1 and all proceeds will go to the local food bank) on December 3rd; he could live with that.
But then Dave emailed and was delighted to have my detritus fill out his load. "It's only $10, but I wanted to make it worthwhile," he said as he loaded it all by himself. He'd checked with another "old neighbor," too, just making the rounds, being sure there wasn't a good deed left undone.
It's nice to be able to help.
It's nice to be helped, too.
Perfect--being helped and helping someone at the same time.
ReplyDeleteA confluence of lovely events! I smiled all day.
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I think our big items pickup was cancelled this year. I saw one notice on Nextdoor saying that people could bring their large items to a central collection place. Isn't the whole idea for them to come get the large items no one can carry?
ReplyDeleteSo I thought, but pandemica has screwed up everything else so why not this, too?!?!
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