“It’s very dangerous, putting them together. I don’t think the boy can handle it. I don’t trust him.” – Mace Windu, Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
Padawan Learner and his loyal neighborhood buddy, Chewbacca, hit the neighborhood garage sales this morning with a vengeance. It took all he had to get through his piano lesson before hitting the streets. They scootered from one house to another picking up other people’s crap undiscovered treasure for pennies on the pound. Put an Abe Lincoln in your pocket and the garage sale world is your oyster.
About once an hour, he and she would come back and show off their treasures before heading back out for rounds 2-4. The highlight of PL’s day was finding a tiki lamp; don’t ask me why. The lowlight was the complete and total lack of broken electronic equipment for dismantling. Seems our neighbors don’t save and then attempt to sell or give away broken items. Oooh, aren’t we hoity-toity.
Isn’t there some kind of unwritten garage sale law that requires all broken motors, yard machines and consumer electronics to be stored in an old cardboard box until the next garage sale date? How’s a boy supposed to learn how stuff works if he can’t take stuff apart?
Baby Boy and Baby Niece dismantle all broken/possibly broken items with any sort of electronic or motor-ey insides. As long as they don’t make their way back into the house when they’re done, I don’t care what they do with them.
Christopher and his friend took apart our printer last summer. *note to self* remove and and all ink cartriges before hand next time*…..
A tiki lamp! Uh, oh. Memory jolt. Disneyland. Singing birds.
“In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room
All the birds sing words
And the flowers croon
In the tiki tiki tiki tiki tiki room”
Ehem. Sorry.
Ooh, ooh…now I know where to UPS all my broken and non-working appliances!! What a find!!
Topsy-Techie: Would you like to ship USPS or Fed Ex?
OMG—-If you saw a picture of my boy’s room it would forever put to rest any questions of “where does electronic stuff go when it dies?” The grave yard is in his room/garage. (His room IS a converted garage.)
Unbelievable!