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Letters From North America Well, last week I was just about to start into my story about how everyone’s garages look alike, when I took a left turn and went off on another tangent. I’ll try and finish my thought process this time. I’ve been told that when your mind shorts out and you just seem to get that blank stare and you know you were thinking of something, but can’t remember, then you are having a ‘senior moment’. There’s a good name for you, isn’t it? Anyway, here I am over at my neighbors, watching him work. The amazing thing that I start to notice is how much his junk and my junk look alike. For example, he’s got some wooden tennis rackets…so do we. When is the last time you saw someone actually playing tennis with a wooden racket? Been a while, I’d bet. So what reason is keeping them around? You can’t sell them. Everyone’s got some. Maybe could be used in some theme restaurant or something, but that’s about all. Now I see a bucket of chain. I always keep my chain in a bucket as well. It just makes sense. Beats sticking it over in a corner. Chain is like Jell-O; it’s just hard to handle. Anyway, here is his bucket of chain. It’s mainly small pieces. These, as we all know aren’t any good for anything. You always need a long piece of chain to do any real work, not some piece that’s one or two feet long. Might as well throw that away as well. Can’t use it. Mountain bicycles…another universal purchase. I’ll bet every garage in the country has at least one or two bicycles that need to be given to some kid that would actually ride them around the neighborhood. Most of the ones I’ve seen have tires that are dry rotted from just sitting in the garage |
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for years and years. Paint cans. Ever notice that as homeowners, we can’t ever seem to throw away keys or paint cans? I’ll bet you’ve got a drawer full of keys somewhere at home. These are to locks you lost or threw away years ago, but you are still holding onto that key, aren’t you? It’s as if we think we’ll actually need that key at some point in the future. Like that old piece of furniture will re-appear as if by magic and we’ll need to get inside of it. Paint cans are the same. You go out and buy some paint. Use part of it and then the can stays with you forever. You can’t seem to be able to muster up the nerve to actually throw that bucket away, can you? Nope, you’ll let it sit in the garage until you sell the house. Then you’ll proudly tell the buyer …”oh and by the way, I’ve left you some paint out in the garage, in case you want to touch up .” You forget to tell him that the paint was last opened 10 years ago. It’s now dried up into a solid 5 pound lump. Not to mention that you forgot to put any kind of a label on the bucket, so how are you supposed to know what can goes to what wall? Not your problem, you’ve sold the house. You bought another house ….and it has paint cans as well. Another common garage item that is probably in every garage in this country is the health and fitness section. I’ve had treadmills, back machines, sit up boards, you name it and I’ve bought it. Most of the time, you use them for shelves to hold other stuff. Treadmills are great for holding things, like say, paint cans. Bicycles are good to hold stuff that you want to dry. Kind of like a 2-wheeled clothesline. We all probably have better and stronger eyes as a result of looking at all of the health stuff we have bought from time to time. I can’t think of a time that I have ever been in anyone’s garage and have ever seen a piece of worn out health equipment. Dusty, yes, but worn out, no…. No, I’ll bet you that your stuff and mine look about the same. It almost makes you think that we moved in and called someone to send over the standard “budget” garage package. The only problem with cleaning this stuff out and getting rid of it, is that sure as you do, you’ll need it tomorrow. Maybe even that foot long piece of chain.