The sale in our garage

The alarm clock goes off. It's 6am.
I hear thunder. I see a flash of lightning. Then it starts to pour. Heavy.
Something is not right. The weatherman said it was going to be sunny today.
It must be my husband's bad luck charm.
I sink back into my fluffy pillow and want so badly to go back to sleep. Heck, it's Saturday. It is a sin to get up this early on a Saturday, especially if it's gonna rain so wonderfully like this.
About 15 minutes later, Jason nudges me, "We have to wake up. Garage sale today"
I say " What sale? It's raining".
He says "Put inside the garage"
I say " Oh".. and sink back into my fluffy pillow again.
Jason nudges me again, and Trouble jingles his collar.
Okay. Sigh. Garage Sale. Wake up. Get up.

After arranging everything inside the garage, the rain stops and the sun came out. And people start coming in. The neighbors behind and adjacent to us also participated in the neighborhood garage sale and we would walk over to each other's garage and chat when it was quiet. It was a good way to get to know our neighbors.


It was interesting to watch all the different characters who came by today.
Manly man with sunglasses came in.. and bought the little PINK vase with plastic leafy plant.
Elderly 70-ish lady wanted the ladder.
Bimboish 40-something woman buys the entire stack of Sega game cartridges.
3 Mexican guys bought the Trivial Pursuit set, and left us the instruction booklet.
Atleast 20 people touched and admired the clay pot, and nobody bought it.

Good news is that we managed to get rid of most of the bulky items. We sold the lawn mower(the eager beaver who would not start), the big carpet, some game sets, a blender, a whole set of Sega game cartridges, some VHS cassettes, and we gave away an office chair and a wooden ladder. And one guy bought the entire box of Jason's shorts.
Bad news is.. we are still stuck with all the books.
And one man stole the Swiss Army Pocket tool which we tagged for $20.

Still, it was a good day. We can buy some sushi now.