Last night we posted an ad for our truck, a 2004 Toyota Tacoma. We got our first call within 3 minutes, and the buyer wanted to meet us "with cash" immediately. It was late, so we said we'd meet tomorrow. He pleaded with us to remove the ad in the meantime.
In the 15 minutes we were on the phone with him, we received more messages about the truck. One was from a man also wanting to come right over with cash. For a second we thought we weren't asking enough money, so we double checked Kelly's Blue Book. We'd be happy to get so much... How did Craig's list work so quickly?
Late last night we cleaned out the truck. In a way, what was inside was revealing. And so, to give you the sort of pleasure you can only get by looking through someone's trash or opening their bathroom medicine cabinet, I present you with the following
- Disposable camera
- Flashlight
- Raincoat
- Headlamp
- Compass
- First Aid Tape
- Tool kit
- Sunscreen
- One dinner plate
- One pink easter egg
- Pouch made from “genuine kangaroo scrotum”
- Climbing chalk and bag
- Surf wax and wax comb
- Notebook and pen
- Three knives
- Climbing Big Walls by Strassman
- A Guide to the Geology of Sabino Canyon and the Catalina Highway
- Raymond Carver's What we Talk About When We Talk About Love
- D.H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy
- Henry David Thoreau's Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
- Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction
- The Elements of Metaphysics
- Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy
- Nabokov's Lolita
- Chekhov's Four Great Plays
- Chapter 34.05 RCW
- Chapter 18.104 RCW
- Spanish Verb Handbook
- Spanish English Dictionary
- Olympia Phone book
- Petrified wood
- A recipe for peanut butter cookies
- The Best of Ken Burns (Jazz)
- Blank postcard from Grand Teton National Park featuring a bull and cow moose drinking from the Snake River (Teton Range in background)
What does it all mean?
Perhaps if we should find ourselves stranded, we will be prepared to learn new languages, climb mountains, master the art of juggling knives, and solve the mysteries of great philosophers?
...Or, more likely, all of that paper could be used to help us start a fire (using the jazz cd to reflect the sun's rays.)
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