Thou Shalt Only Sort Of...

I stole something tonight. But, I only sort of stole it. My neighbor had this great, old wooden hat rack. It wasn't an antique with any intrinsic value or anything. It was just an old hat rack. I happen to be a lover of all things ancient. My dad and I used to go antiquing quite a bit. I even have the beginnings of an if-I-hang-on-to-this-long-enough-it-will-be-an-antique collection.

Anyway, our neighbor died a while back, but most of his family lives out of town. Every once in a while a relative or friend will come and clean out the house little by little. He didn't have much of value, so most of it gets thrown away. Thus was the case for the hat rack.... sort of.

It was thrown away, but it was not put in the garbage can. Now, I'm not sure if you know this or not, but it is against a city ordnance of our fair town to leave furniture in your yard. Now, these out of towners didn't know that, and I took pity on them. So, protecting their good name I removed the hat rack from the yard and placed it in my guest bedroom.

Now, I guess I could have asked for the hat rack, but then again, I'm already trying to get his old motorcycle. I don't want to press my luck.

"He saves what others throw away. Says that he'll be rich some day."
-Cake