Tales from the Garage

Garage Sales.  What a facinating place to be on a Saturday morning.  You meet some amazing and some...let's say, interesting people. As I took time to connect with some of our shoppers, I made an effort to watch for funny moments, and have narrowed it down to few moments that made me laugh so hard. Before I forget, special thanks to Micki for working her mad sales skills on a 5 year old showing him how to work the suction bow and arrow set.  Her demo sold him!  We had some healthy competition down the street, but Michelle was able to turn it into a networking opportunity.  We encouraged shoppers to visit the other sale and they did the same. 



With that in mind, here is moment #1:

A lady and her husband arrive quietly and begin walking through the tables admiring our treasures.  After several minutes and out of the blue, the woman proclaims "OH MY GOSH!  We left mom at the other garage sale with no cell phone and no money."  Ha!  They jump in the truck to race to the other sale to pick up "mom" (who must be 65+ years old).  About 10 minutes later I notice the woman and "mom" shopping again.  After browsing a good 5-10 minutes, they look at one another and say "I cannot believe this!  We left (the man) at the other garage sale!...Should we go get him?...No, he can walk."  Hilarious!  

Speaking of men coming to the garage sale, moment #2:

An woman buys our broken washer and broken dryer (Praise God, and yes!  She knew they were broken.  I didn't take advantage of her).  She gets on the phone to call "Keith" to come pick them up.  She is rambling things to him about where she is, and randomly blurts out to me, "I don't know where I'm at.  I don't know!...What's this?  Geismo?"  (It's near Geismar for those that don't know.  I'm laughing out loud as I type this - it might be a you had to be there moment, but I LOVED it.)

You can't have a garage sale without drama.  We nearly had a smack down over some camo hats.  A lady had intended to buy the hats and set them down.  Another family walks up, picks up the hats and excitedly talks about buying them.  I made the mistake of commenting to Michelle that I thought that lady was going to buy them.  Hearing me, the lady turns around and takes them out of the boys hands abruptly.  (oops)  The son (about 14) storms off to the truck.  Dad gets mad and starts making loud comments about the lady.  Then he goes to the truck.  I thought we might have to use the teaky torches to separate them, but thankfully, both ladies bought their stuff and left peacefully. 

Back to the funny moments, #3.  This one was centered around our feature item:  the Eliptical Machine.  By far, this item was the talk of the sale.  Despite it's cheap price, no one adopted it.  Many tried it including this one woman.  As she's going to town testing it out, she states "This one is better than the one at Fusion!"  Immediately as if fate was making fun of her, she nearly lifts off the machine head first over the front with a huge "WHOA!"  So funny!!



Later in the day I experienced moment #4 when a young guy and his mom showed up.  The boy instantly spotted the 3 foot long stuffed green python.  Ah!  Maybe today would be the day since I have tried to give the thing away numerous times before now!  The boy wraps the snake around his arms as if it's squeezing him holding the face of the snake inches from his own face.  He walks up to his mom saying in the most dry, monotone voice "Mom, can you get this snake out of my face."  Needless to say, his performance won me over, and I gave him the snake! 



This is only a small sample of the day and the picture does no justice as to the amount of stuff we had. So many funny moments to pick from.  We're gonna go for more stories in early November to sell the remaining items. Nothing like building the Kingdom of God one "garage tale" at a time. More to come...