They'll Be There For Meeeee

[roadrunnertwice]

Inexplicably, I am now the owner of the complete Friends. It fell off the back of the truck.

No, I mean, literally.

So I'm biking home from work along Rainier Road, and since I've just rolled past a bunch of inscrutable smashed clear plastic that I'm still not quite sure what the hell it was, I'm on the lookout for anything else mucking up the shoulder. Like brightly-colored tagboard boxes. With familiar logos on them. brrrrrrrake.

Yes, it was the above-linked limited version of the complete set. Yes, the discs were fine; one of them had managed to hop out of all its packaging and was laying shiny side up on the road, but it looked fine. No, the fancy-pants box was not salvageable, having been smashed all to hell. Yes, I went ahead and backpacked all approximately $200 worth of DVDs.

No, I don't even particularly like Friends. But I figure my dad and co-workers will enjoy it! And I can totally sell it off sometime in the future when I'm desperate for cash.

Comments

[bcn-are-krieg.livejournal.com]

I think this is the first time I've ever heard of someone actually procuring something that fell off the back of a truck. My sense of irony is amused.

[roadrunnertwice]

It was like all the fictional con-artists and amateur fences I'd ever read were standing around with their mouths agape. Glorious!

[gyladia.livejournal.com]

I saw a smashed pizza on the road past Walmart, maybe you could swing by and pick that up too? It'd be nice, dinner and a movie.

[zizz.livejournal.com]

your icon looks like you! i like it. and you could probably make a nice bit of cash with that set up. way to go.

[roadrunnertwice]

That's a character from Ranma½ who Laura and I used to joke was based on me. (He, uh, gets lost.)

[emmling.livejournal.com]

He, uh, gets lost.

To put it mildly.