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scavengers
Since I'm moving, and the place I'm moving to is smaller than the place I have now, I'm looking to get rid of some stuff. So I drove by the local goodwill store just now. The store was closed, but there were some people over to the side by the "donations" sign so I drove over there to ask them if they'd take my waterbed. Only it turns out the people didn't work for Goodwill. Some of them were leaving stuff, but many of them seemed to be looking through the donations for things to take. Kinda sick if you ask me. I mean if Goodwill gave stuff away, that's one thing. But they sell it and use the money to train people to work. Someone should stand outside and staple little cards to the heads of the scavengers: stealing from charities is wrong.
poetry reading
One time I went to a poetry reading with some friends and they tried to get me to write a poem on the fly. I wrote about how I didn't know anything about writing poetry. I don't have it any more, but it was kind of fun. I was cracking up inside. The first few lines were basically an apology for not being a poet. Only the audience didn't realize that, see, and so they were all being nice and encouraging and asking me to go ahead and tell them the poem... Only they were saying this in response to the first lines of the poem, where I said I wasn't a good poet. So I tricked em, see?
Oh, never mind.