Some Days You Can't Even Give It Away

Not you, Dawson, the waterbed!

It seemed nobody wanted the beautiful solid oak waterbed with a bookcase headboard and huge drawers under the mattress.We offered it first to family members, they didn't want it. Nor did friends. Hey, it's not like we are trying to sell it for money. It's free if somebody will take it away.

We hear that maybe a friend of a friend will take it. He might want to use the wood to make shelves. He comes over with a van and a flatbed trailer. Takes the bed apart and loads it up. And as he backs out of the driveway the trailer goes onto the lawn and hits our mail box. He continues on, breaking off the post at gound-level. Next he runs over the mail box crushing it. He then drives off leaving the flattened mailbox in the street. This, after we gave him all this expensive lumber for free!

He doesn't remember hitting anything when he backed out. But immediately he offered me $50 to replace it. So I replaced the whole thing. And it cost about $50, so maybe he's done this before.