"Alright, Mrs. Dawson, what the hell is up with you standing in your driveway for the last 30 minutes and just staring into your garage with your hands hips and all?"
"Oh, hi Freddy, um, I was watching a home improvement show last night and they had a five-question quiz about a garage and apparently, I failed the first question, so."
"Well, what was the first question then?"
"LOL, if you have a two-car garage, can you even park in the garage, LOL."
"I mean, you have this space right up the middle in between all these poorly stacked large plastic containers to the left and to the right, so put it right up the middle then, Mrs. Dawson."
"Oh, and the second quiz question was "do you think that your containers are neatly stacked?" and all, which is when I gave up on the quiz, so."
"Alright, so what's the plan then, Mrs. Dawson? Are you going to start tossing stuff out or put it out this weekend for the city sponsored yard sale weekend?"
"Well Freddy, that's where I'm stuck. There's probably some decent stuff in these plastic containers, but yard sales are just a pain to deal with, right? However, in my favor, I think, the containers with the red lids are my stuff and the containers with the blue lids are the ex hubby's stuff, not that it helps all that much now that I've said that out loud, so."
"Well, hold on, Mrs. Dawson, that may be more beneficial than you think."
Hi folks, I'm Freddy and within one hour and two beers, I managed to give each blue lid container a cursory review and ended up with three categories. Tools, man nick knack junk and straight up junk.
On the other hand, apparently, Mrs. Dawson spent her one hour retrieving my two beers and changing her clothes. Well, changing the appearance of her clothes. I'm not sure what women call that thing where they tie their shirts into a knot between the breast line and the belt loop line, but whatever it's called, it's cool.
"Alright, Freddy, what's next then? It's still going to be a pain to participate in the yard sale weekend, so."
Oh, I had a plan alright, but I was never very good with knots, so I went with plan B. And step one of plan B was to drag the four containers of straight up junk out of the garage and around to the side of the garage for that "out of site, out of mind" effect, which immediately exposed a little bit of the concrete floor to become visible for the first time in what was probably years. But just a little bit.
"Well, what's that, Freddy?"
"The corner of the garage and some of the floor, Mrs. Dawson."
"Well, I guess I like that then. I also guess that you like my boobs, young man, but I guess that's hard wired into your male brain, so."
"And I'm guilty of being a male, so for one more beer, I'll present you with a proposal for the rest of the containers, so."
Yep, I had a plan. I never thought that Mrs. Dawson was going to be too concerned about the money, so I dragged out all of the remaining blue lid plastic containers and lined them up in the driveway and gave Mrs. Dawson my proposal. And it's not like I reverted back to my youth and built a fort around her SUV that had to be parked in the driveway because she couldn't park in the garage, LOL, but I totally built a fort wall of plastic containers on both sides of her SUV, LOL.
"Ugh, I mean, Freddy, what's the next step from your male mind then? And make it quick before one of my young nephews stops by and spies a fort to play in, LOL."
"Ahh, here we go, Mrs. Dawson, so prepare yourself for the weird workings of the male mind. Step one, I'm assuming that you don't care all that much about the cash from selling this stuff and step B, send a text to Mr. Larkins and offer to sell any or all of these containers on the cheap as a "pre-sale" in advance of the beginning of the yard sale that starts tomorrow. I mean, as far as I know, that old man is all about yard sales and for the right price, he could easily double or triple his money, so."