wattsupdoc
Active Member
Boy howdy! What a day today. I had decided it was time to get rid of a bunch of this junk I have around here. Including my old hump truck. The brown Ford. I have an old 350 and 4 speed hydra glide transmission I had pulled from a parts truck a few years back and it had to go to. So I thought hey, I'll post up a listing on Craig's list for scrap metal stuff. Come and get it. All or nothing. Old rider mower, old washing machine, lots of pipe pieces and electrical material I just wasn't using. I didn't think too much of it. Well about 2 hours went by and I checked my mail. LOW AND BEHOLD! I had about 50 emails...The buzzards sure do come out don't they. 
I couldn't call all of them, so I called one. I thought for sure he was coming today, but he was a no show. I told him I didn't have a title for the truck, so he was no longer interested...JERK..I had the title but didn't feel like hunting it down, just to give away a FREE TRUCK....So I reposted the listing and stated that I couldn't reply to all the messages, it was just too much. That I'd be here the rest of the evening and tomorrow till noon. First come first serve. Gave good directions to the house and figured I'd just sit back and watch what happened. Still the idiots cant read the post and ask questions like "Where is it?" DUH I said Ozark Exit a Wal-Mart. Or "Do you still have it?" I posted I would change the listing the moment someone arrived to get it all. I mean I wasn't trying to be a jerk, but how could I possibly respond to all this? Sooooo... This EVENING I get an email, that someone was coming to get the stuff. "Would I hold it?" GEEEZ... I did reply back that I was here and no one had came yet. I thought it's 6:30 now, surely they'll realize that it was going to get dark soon and just come at first light..Then right about 7:45 someone knocks on the door. I go check it and threes some people here with a trailer and truck...I couldn't just send them home even though it was just about dark, so I sent them to the are while I put my shoes on. Grumbling the whole time, what kind of idiots are these.LOL It gets better, hang in there.So I grog my pipe and a flashlight and head outside. Knowing damn good and well they weren't prepared to do all this. So I get down there and it's getting dark already. There are 2 men and one woman standing there. The truck it just a constant shrill of high pitched kids screaming. The younger guy and the rough woman are having a heated discussion about this. "Why are they in the truck? The guy says."Because they aint got no business being out here" The woman's reply. "They can get out and help. " The man barks back. So she goes over and opens the door. Out pours four young kids from the age of 10 to 2, with three of them being maybe a year apart from each other. All three still in diapers...GEEEZ some help, I mean were talking about metal scraps here! Any who, we start digging into everything, I hadn't gathered the stuff up because I didn't want to see all that was going bye bye and didn't want to-do all the work, just to give it to someone to make some money off of. Not that I didn't mind helping just....OK. So I tell them about the truck, said again I don't have the title, I thought he was going to cry. Pointed him to the engine so he could get an idea how to load it and the truck. Then took my trusty flashlight and started in the shed pulling pipe and crap out of there. So I'm tossing these old pool pipes out the door and I here the 10 y.o. say there a hole there. I pause and the youngest of these now screaming running every where little diapered brats is standing there. She sees me start to throw the pipe and stops. I stop. Wait, the start to toss it again, she runs out in front of me..GEEEZ man. Then I look outside and the woman's yelling" WATCH IT" the littlest one now had a 10 foot piece of pipe and was just about to
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the woman with it. She says "Put that in the truck!" Now how the hell can a 2 y. o. do that? So the little girl heads over to the truck. Right towards the oldest fella. I stand there and watch and she almost
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this guy in the face with it. Holy crap man! (I said..out loud no less). So now the young fella asked me if I had any jumper cables. I knew what he was wanting and said"That aint gonna work dude." I mean you now asking me to get this thing started up so you can drive it up onto the trailer you have now got backed up to the back of the truck that I clearly stated didn't run in my listing. Jumping it off with my truck that I would have to drive down there and wedge into the small space available to allow the cables to reach.
I couldn't call all of them, so I called one. I thought for sure he was coming today, but he was a no show. I told him I didn't have a title for the truck, so he was no longer interested...JERK..I had the title but didn't feel like hunting it down, just to give away a FREE TRUCK....So I reposted the listing and stated that I couldn't reply to all the messages, it was just too much. That I'd be here the rest of the evening and tomorrow till noon. First come first serve. Gave good directions to the house and figured I'd just sit back and watch what happened. Still the idiots cant read the post and ask questions like "Where is it?" DUH I said Ozark Exit a Wal-Mart. Or "Do you still have it?" I posted I would change the listing the moment someone arrived to get it all. I mean I wasn't trying to be a jerk, but how could I possibly respond to all this? Sooooo... This EVENING I get an email, that someone was coming to get the stuff. "Would I hold it?" GEEEZ... I did reply back that I was here and no one had came yet. I thought it's 6:30 now, surely they'll realize that it was going to get dark soon and just come at first light..Then right about 7:45 someone knocks on the door. I go check it and threes some people here with a trailer and truck...I couldn't just send them home even though it was just about dark, so I sent them to the are while I put my shoes on. Grumbling the whole time, what kind of idiots are these.LOL It gets better, hang in there.So I grog my pipe and a flashlight and head outside. Knowing damn good and well they weren't prepared to do all this. So I get down there and it's getting dark already. There are 2 men and one woman standing there. The truck it just a constant shrill of high pitched kids screaming. The younger guy and the rough woman are having a heated discussion about this. "Why are they in the truck? The guy says."Because they aint got no business being out here" The woman's reply. "They can get out and help. " The man barks back. So she goes over and opens the door. Out pours four young kids from the age of 10 to 2, with three of them being maybe a year apart from each other. All three still in diapers...GEEEZ some help, I mean were talking about metal scraps here! Any who, we start digging into everything, I hadn't gathered the stuff up because I didn't want to see all that was going bye bye and didn't want to-do all the work, just to give it to someone to make some money off of. Not that I didn't mind helping just....OK. So I tell them about the truck, said again I don't have the title, I thought he was going to cry. Pointed him to the engine so he could get an idea how to load it and the truck. Then took my trusty flashlight and started in the shed pulling pipe and crap out of there. So I'm tossing these old pool pipes out the door and I here the 10 y.o. say there a hole there. I pause and the youngest of these now screaming running every where little diapered brats is standing there. She sees me start to throw the pipe and stops. I stop. Wait, the start to toss it again, she runs out in front of me..GEEEZ man. Then I look outside and the woman's yelling" WATCH IT" the littlest one now had a 10 foot piece of pipe and was just about to[hr]
the woman with it. She says "Put that in the truck!" Now how the hell can a 2 y. o. do that? So the little girl heads over to the truck. Right towards the oldest fella. I stand there and watch and she almost
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this guy in the face with it. Holy crap man! (I said..out loud no less). So now the young fella asked me if I had any jumper cables. I knew what he was wanting and said"That aint gonna work dude." I mean you now asking me to get this thing started up so you can drive it up onto the trailer you have now got backed up to the back of the truck that I clearly stated didn't run in my listing. Jumping it off with my truck that I would have to drive down there and wedge into the small space available to allow the cables to reach.
