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My dad's housing development held a small yard sale this morning. Not many residents had stuff out, but we made a bit of money and got rid of some stuff. Things generally went smoothly, except for this early vulture.
(setup: three houses share a larger main driveway, we're at the back) The sale started at 8AM. We're hauling stuff out to set up at 7:30. A guy screeches up in a land yacht (nearly clipping me), gets out and starts pawing through the boxes. Upon being informed that we will NOT be selling him anything before 8AM, he gets back in his car and proceeds to drive up on the grass (again forcing me to dive out of the way)...right over a box that had been set out. Said box was right next to a cement post and he managed to avoid that, so...there was no way he didn't see (or hear) the box or hear us yelling. There wasn't anything particularly valuable in there, it was a quarter box, but there were one or two cheap glass ornaments and lightcatchers that didn't make it. I hope he wasn't a local and the glass later deflated his tires on the mesa road. If the guy had come back, dad was going to make him pay for the entire contents of the box. Neither of us thought to get his license plate...not that it would have done much...or maybe it would have, as I would think property damage (torn up grass, glass that couldn't be cleaned up easily) and nearly running over a resident's relative is generally frowned upon. Where's that old wrist-rocket slingshot when we need it?
Someone dropped a sandwich press so the latch broke off...it may still work without the latch, but wouldn't be used as intended (you would have to hold the lid down to use it, rather than just closing it and waiting).
A few people walked off with some things (had an armload of stuff and I couldn't see everything), but nothing important.
A neighbor related that she had once put in an ad "Early birds will be shot", and they were armed with water pistols. A police officer shows up at the sale and she freaks out...turns out he was just going yardsaling himself (and was amused by the water guns).
I did wind up selling a few things that I kinda didn't want to, but that's my own fault for not putting them in the house. No huge loss though.
(setup: three houses share a larger main driveway, we're at the back) The sale started at 8AM. We're hauling stuff out to set up at 7:30. A guy screeches up in a land yacht (nearly clipping me), gets out and starts pawing through the boxes. Upon being informed that we will NOT be selling him anything before 8AM, he gets back in his car and proceeds to drive up on the grass (again forcing me to dive out of the way)...right over a box that had been set out. Said box was right next to a cement post and he managed to avoid that, so...there was no way he didn't see (or hear) the box or hear us yelling. There wasn't anything particularly valuable in there, it was a quarter box, but there were one or two cheap glass ornaments and lightcatchers that didn't make it. I hope he wasn't a local and the glass later deflated his tires on the mesa road. If the guy had come back, dad was going to make him pay for the entire contents of the box. Neither of us thought to get his license plate...not that it would have done much...or maybe it would have, as I would think property damage (torn up grass, glass that couldn't be cleaned up easily) and nearly running over a resident's relative is generally frowned upon. Where's that old wrist-rocket slingshot when we need it?
Someone dropped a sandwich press so the latch broke off...it may still work without the latch, but wouldn't be used as intended (you would have to hold the lid down to use it, rather than just closing it and waiting).
A few people walked off with some things (had an armload of stuff and I couldn't see everything), but nothing important.
A neighbor related that she had once put in an ad "Early birds will be shot", and they were armed with water pistols. A police officer shows up at the sale and she freaks out...turns out he was just going yardsaling himself (and was amused by the water guns).
I did wind up selling a few things that I kinda didn't want to, but that's my own fault for not putting them in the house. No huge loss though.
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