Whitespike you win...
..hands down every time with that story, hilarious. Why not just ask for it as I have done on two different occasions. First time I saw a black Eames chair drove past it several times night and day the chair was just outside. Finally decided to inquire about it, the owners didn?t speak English, so I sent my friend who speaks Russian and got that one. The Bertoia chair I saw it sitting on a porch in a country house drove right up and asked if he would sell it. He ended up giving it to me for the best price of all FREE99.
Spikey,
next time you are in Mississippi visiting the fam, I've got a Mr. Chair, disassembled in about 5 pieces, but still perfectly good, that you can have if you want it. None of my children are interested and it is collecting dust in the laundry room.
Easter? To bring the boy home to see his kin?
No --
of course you do not take someone's property without permission -- I'm sorry.
The Golden Rule -- you know that one ? How would you feel if someone did that to you ? It's an insult, if nothing else: "He's stupid, and I'm smart." Thanks a lot !
Come on -- if you want it, ask for it. It shouldn't even be a question, for heaven's sake, and I'm sure you know that -- right ? [smily face here]
If a bank or a faceless and greedy corporation (for instance) used the reasoning "I know what to do with this property better than you do," what do you think we'd say ? How is an individual's action any different ?
You might even make a new friend (or in this case, improve a relationship) !
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As long as it is joking.
I have one in the field outside my garden.
it'll pinch ya!-broken spokes!
It looks good from a distance. But i rescued it from a E Village
garbage heap. Not worth restoring.
I like it where it is. If someone drove along and thought
i was some hillbilly and had no business owning it and took
it, that would be stealing.
I have way too many spare emeco chairs that i often leave out.
(from a NJ asylum that went out of business for obvious political reasons)
They look good around the garden table. They were free. From the garbage.
Hundreds of them.
And they look great on the landscape...and around my old airstream.
We only go up on weekends in the better seasons.
(wood stove heat only, a bit off the grid) Sucks that we have to lock
everything up all the time.
rusty chair yard art
I had one in my back yard for years-with bikini seat and back. I kept it there because I thought of it as yard art and couldn't bear to toss it. My wife asked me repeatedly to get rid of it as she thought it an eyesore. Regretfully, it looked so tough with not much paint and it's bikini in pieces, I finally carried it to the trash one sad day...........
I watched this old Panton chair
move around the yard for weeks in this realy bad neighborhood. I knew someone had to be using it, but am quite sure for them it was only a place to sit their fat ass. Finally, one week it got closer to the fence and I thought about lifting it over the fence and throwing a nice folding patio chair back over...but the next day it was gone! I am sure someone else had there eye on it to. I see nice chairs on patio's in bad neighborhoods all the time! I guess I should learn enough spanish to translate "Give me your chair or I'll have you deported! A couple a years ago on the Big Island of Hawaii I had to take the trash to the dump as they don't have pick-up service and low and behold the Trashmen where lounging on two "Elda" chairs by Colombo...I offered them 50 bucks for the chairs, they declined, saying they where not allowed to resell the trash!
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