On the top floor of my apartment building, in the laundry room, is a “free table”. It’s an ordinary card table of fake brown wood, pushed up against the wall. There is a sign that is taped to the wall above the table, written out in yellow highlighter on white notebook paper, it reads “free (with an arrow pointing down toward the table)”. Residents who have belongings they no longer need or want, possessions that hold old unwanted memories or unfulfilled dreams, or just plain old junk, leave them on this table for others to take. Most of the items you find on this table are useless junk. But one mans trash is another mans treasure and all that crap. What isn’t claimed by residents is then donated to the church next door or trashed (depending on its quality). I have put a half closet worth of clothes on this table over the two years that I have lived here. I have also gotten some pretty cool stuff off this table too:
The Free Table
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well the way I interpret that sign is that you should take the table itself!
it’s free after all…
do you think that would be un-neighborly?
that girl breaks my heart.
I agree with Cindy. My first thought was, Why doesn’t someone take the table? Maybe the person who put the table there is saying, “I put that damn table out three years ago and it’s still there. Someone take it already!”
By the way, just started reading your stuff. Great reading.
wow, you got some pretty cool stuff off that table. i would consider all that excellent stuff!
Sounds like fun! I’m all about the free bath products.
Trust me, nobody would want to take that table for free – you’d have to be paid. I got some good stuff off that table but I have been selective, most of the stuff is real crap.
Too bad the girl didn’t put the dude on the table- now, that would be a good item…maybe.