On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 00:57:29 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

My friend at the boat shop once a year cleans out his yard of boats
that go over the mechanics lien time limit or boats just left in the
yard by people who don't' want them anymore. He sells the ones worth
money, but most of them are junk.

Anyway - and I've actually been there when this happens - he puts a
couple out by the street with FREE signs on them.

They are gone within an hour.

It's like freakin magic. :)

The alley behind my business is like a freeway for people living on
the fringe of society. I didn't realize this until I bought a
commercial property, with an alley, in my area. For years I rented
commercial space in the downtown area and had to deal with all of it's
idiocentriciticies, before I bought my own piece of commercial heaven
in the city.

Over the last couple of years I have learned, if there's something I
want to keep, don't leave it outside, for even a few hours. If
there's something I want to get rid of, which is very often, leave it
outside for a night, and like magic, it will be gone.

I had an old fuel oil drum from an old heating system, that was left
as a gift from the previous owner of the property. I pumped the 30 or
so gallons of heating oil into jerry cans and took them to to the
county recycling center. They said the would take the old 55 gallon
drum, but after I loaded it and hauled it down to the dump, they
declined, as it was an old fuel oil drum. I was instructed to drill
holes into the drum and then they would accept it, but they didn't.

I left it out back one night, and like majic, it was gone the next
morning. I could probably make a lot of money getting rid of spent
fuel rods from neuclear plants, but I just don't have it in me.

bb