the great saturday night swindle

i had some luck, today. while working, on my way from one call to the next, i was driving down the street near our university. tomorrow is garbage day in that neighborhood and i'm an inveterate garbage picker, so i was more than usually aware. on the curb was a pile of furniture to be picked up tomorrow, including an oak altar table. what immediately caught my eye was the carved inscription "do you this in memory of me". i should say that as i type this, my computer is sitting on another oak altar table, gothic style, which i also picked out of the trash. mine came from the church 2 blocks away from home, where my sisters went to church when they were small and where i went to church school a few times. i was driving by one garbage day and my table had been set out for trash. i remembered it from my childhood, along with the two gothic chairs that also sat on the altar. it turned out that some obnoxious fairy a few blocks away had already gotten the chairs. anyway, i managed to get it home and it is now my computer table. the monitor sits on an antique gothic prie-dieu, also picked out of the trash somewhere else, on top of the table.
anyway, i luckily had the company phone so i called barry and told him about it and asked him to drive his pt up there and get it. when i called back an hour later, he said he'd driven by but the table was gone. i felt literally sick, my heart in my throat at missing it. when i got home tonight after work, i noticed that the pt hatch wasn't all of the way shut. it turned out that barry had gone back and found the table, pulled off to one side where he hadn't seen it before. there was another guy picking up items, so he asked him to help load it. so, i got it after all. it's from the 30's or 40's, golden oak. not as nice as mine and needs some repair but at least worth a couple of hundred bucks with minor repairs. i love free stuff! especially free stuff i can resell!!