Monday, July 14, 2008

One person's trash is another person's treasure

I had a garage sale this past weekend. I had one table alone full of books. A man came by and purchased quite a few. After he had paid he mentioned that he was a book turner. Out of curiosity I asked him if he sold them online. He replied, no, he sold them at Powell's, and proceeded to smuggly explain that next time I wanted to sell books, I should try Powell's first before selling them so cheaply at a garage sale. I smiled and nodded, and told him I would remember that.

What he didn't know was that I did that exact thing two days earlier, and all the books he just bought were the ones Powell's rejected. Sucker.

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