Decisions , decisions . As you do a round of weekend garage sales you have to quickly decide what you want to buy from the array of tempting items on offer so that you can get to the next one before other obsessed hunters get all the goodies . As an example of the stress on such forays, our twitching Shipping Reporter was taken for a recent run by family members .
At one location he could have bought a Zebra and a partly disconnected lighthouse lamp . Tempting , especially the lighthouse, but no.
At another garage sale he resisted the urge to buy a collection of Istanbul Moon Lamps and corner the obvious big market for them .
While being driven to another exciting venue, the driver suddenly stopped on the side of the road and announced there was an echidna on the roadway.
A daughter got out of the car as if going to the rescue.
Because of his poor eyesight , it took some time before the waterfront roundsman eventually saw the sad , spikey little critter, also called a Spiny Anteater . He declared it dead .
Dead ? It was actually a tasty soursop from a nearby tree groaning with fruit . It and another soursop were placed in the car and a quick getaway made with the loot . The Shipping Reporter has been booked in for new glasses so that he can tell the difference between a soursop and a corpse on future garage sale sortees.
(Garage , Sales , Tension .)
