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Curb find! LOL! - mikeh - 09-19-2006
So today is amnesty day in Downers Grove. That means that once every couple years, you can put anything and everything on the curb and it will be picked up. It cost the Village a fortune, but the residents love it and clamor for it if it does not happen.
As a result, all day long on Monday, vans and pickups are cruising - with the whole family as crew - all over town rooting through trash. Last night, minivans with kids and all, driving by till 9 pm with the sliding door open and flashlights shining out in search of the good stuff.
Now that I have set the stage, this is my story.
I was almost home from picking up the boys from day care, going down Main St (a busy road with no parking) and what to my wondering eyes does appear? Nothing less than a Power Wheels Quad Ninja ATV!!!!!! On the curb!!!! You should know that I have wanted one since I was a kid, and now that I have kids, I want it again. But little Ted is getting ancy to be fed and ben is saying hes thursty, so I drive on home just dying with loss. When I arrive, I quickly hand off the kids to the wife, make an excuse of being "out of something" and dash out the door. Its still there! I park down the block around the corner cause I don't want to block the home's driveway, and run down the block to my prize.
Its mint. I check the wires - good, tires - good, linkage - good, stickers and body condition - perfect! I'm taking it!
Thats when I hear, "Excuse me! Excuse me!" I tun and see a car had pulled into the drive and a woman got out and was hollering at me, "We just turned around to come back and get that!"
So here I am deafeted, all my hopes and dreams evaporating....NOT! I become a hiena confronted by a jackel on the Serengetti of Main St over the new found corpse of a power wheels toy! It goes like this:
Lady: We just turned around and came back to get that!
Me: So did I
Lady: No, I mean we just turned around our car to come back here for that.
Me: I did the exact same thing. I parked around the corner and ran over here.
Lady: I want it for my seven year old.
I look at the car at the face of her 7year old son, and turn back to her. Struggling to regained my dignity and humanity, the only thing I can think to reply to that is:
Me: I want it for my four year old and this toy is meant for ages 3-6!
Lady: Well if you're going to be like that, FINE!
Basking in triumph, having fended off the smaller jackel, the hiena drags is prize back to its waiting minivan!
I confess my alterior motive to my wife, who responds, "You got a power wheels quad? Awesome!"
My son and I played on it till 9 pm watching other curb finders going by, knowing that I fought for and won the motherload!:p:
Curb find! LOL! - Thirdgen89GTA - 09-19-2006
I'm reminded of that Arnold movie where he tries to get a toy for his kid but waits too long and everyone is going nuts for it. Can't remember of the name of the movie. hehe.
I'd be like....MINE!!!! Sorry, I got here first.
Curb find! LOL! - Racin' Ranger1 - 09-19-2006
nice find
Curb find! LOL! - north_shore_racer - 09-19-2006
ha, man that takes guts to say that to a kid, you did the right thing, which is make your kids happy. good this you were a fast enough thinker to spit out that line or it woulda been hers.
Curb find! LOL! - mikeh - 09-19-2006
Well I actually didn't speak to the kid, just her.
And there was no way I was giving up my prize curb find. That kids face tugged at my strings, but I was grounded in my decision by then. You cant claim I saw it first so its mine. Besides, I not only got it first, but saw it first as well. And no way was that lady going to give it up if the situation was reversed. I coulda told her my kid had cancer and his dying wish was to have that toy and I highly doubt she would have surrendered it.
In addition, were I to discover somone beating to the toy, I would have just kept driving. No way would I have stopped and tried to confront someone over it. Mostly, I was shocked at actually being confronted over a curb find.
Curb find! LOL! - BottledBeast - 09-19-2006
lol thats good stuff right thier
Curb find! LOL! - maxximum_44 - 09-19-2006
Thirdgen89GTA Wrote:I'm reminded of that Arnold movie where he tries to get a toy for his kid but waits too long and everyone is going nuts for it. Can't remember of the name of the movie. hehe.
Jingle All The Way
Good find mikeh
Curb find! LOL! - firesprink281 - 09-19-2006
Quote:I become a hiena confronted by a jackel on the Serengetti of Main St over the new found corpse of a power wheels toy!
wow!! that paints a picture.
Curb find! LOL! - Casketman - 09-19-2006
Garbage picking is normally looked down apon. It must be some upper middle class thing I guess. Those people out there in the DG and stuff. Us rednecks down here are made fun of for that LOL
Curb find! LOL! - Czech-it-Out Graphics - 09-19-2006
lol so now ur the city's best garbage picker, what are your plans now????
cool story
Curb find! LOL! - Ponch - 09-19-2006
Hahaa literally LoL that's greeaaatt...Pics of the new ride? Any plans to change it into an rc to upgrade from your son's mini-t? haha
Curb find! LOL! - rocco79 - 09-19-2006
Czech-it-Out Graphics Wrote:lol so now ur the city's best garbage picker, what are your plans now????
cool story
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good find dude. I had one when i was a kid too
Curb find! LOL! - mikeh - 09-19-2006
Czech-it-Out Graphics Wrote:lol so now ur the city's best garbage picker, what are your plans now????
cool story
I will put it in the shed with the other two.:owned:
Curb find! LOL! - Obsessive R/C - 09-19-2006
LOL!! Took big coconuts to stare down that 7 yr old!! I Love it!!
Curb find! LOL! - kevinF - 09-19-2006
hahahaha thats great
Curb find! LOL! - chickenfarmer3 - 09-19-2006
i would have done the same thing, thats cool
Curb find! LOL! - mikeh - 09-19-2006
It all boils down to entitlement. Or rather a false sense of entitlement. I just do not tolerate that very well.
Oh yeah, did I mention I really wanted this toy?
As a rule, I never go around looking for trash on trash day, but if I am just going about my business and see something I want, thats different. I could be a milionare and still would pick something off the curb if I fancied it enough.
Anyway, how can you resist picking up one of these?
http://mendingshed.stores.yahoo.net/newninja1.html
Curb find! LOL! - Ponch - 09-19-2006
So whats the first upgrade? New motor, dual batts?
Curb find! LOL! - mikeh - 09-19-2006
Already got dual batteries. I think it will be a headlight!
Curb find! LOL! - AddictedtoNITRO - 09-20-2006
hey mikeh. I got a similar exp at a garage sale with an original bigfoot powerwheels. But anyway I got it lol. I put a batt out of a 4-wheeler in it and whoa hang on boy lol. Just YOU don't sit on it. It's so powerfull that it'll strip out the trans gears. been there lol. also the 4-wheeler batt runs for like 4-5 hours or so seems like forever.
Curb find! LOL! - Ponch - 09-20-2006
We need to go and get some gas motors in it....
Curb find! LOL! - Racin' Ranger1 - 09-20-2006
weed wacker motors
Curb find! LOL! - TmaxxCrap - 09-20-2006
screw it find a way to get a lawn mower motor on it
(yeah like that will fit)
Curb find! LOL! - AddictedtoNITRO - 09-20-2006
yea um I'm pretty sure the plastic gears will hold up real well lol
Curb find! LOL! - DAVEC-NITRO-RS4 - 09-21-2006
Mike! I saw all that stuff out on the curb the other day and almost stopped to scrounge.
I am proud you stood your ground. It's "possession is ownership" in the garbage game. You can be sure if she had it and you said "it's mine", she would have ripped your arm off and beat you and your little kid to death with it. She was prolly from Oak Brook and had the Mercedes around the corner.
I think I would have laughed and said, "Better luck next year, kid!"