A dear friend from high school days knows my tastes in interior decorating and furniture. Luckily, she's a yard sale fanatic who goes to sales frequently. Almost always she finds quality pieces at great bargain prices. She rarely ever pays the asking price since she's a savvy negotiator.
One Sunday morning, the doorbell rang. It was my friend. She had a kind of worried look on her face.
"I didn't have my cell phone," she said, almost out of breath. "There's a great chair at a yard sale but I didn't buy it because I didn't know if you would want it. Do you?"
She described the chair and, of course, it sounded like a perfect addition to our living room. It had curvy wooden legs and gold-headed tacks in a design on the end of each arm.'
"Okay," she said, rushing out the door. "I've got to go back and get it before somebody else picks it up. It might even be gone."
"Wait," I yelled out to her. "I'll give you the $25."
"Pay me when I get back," she called back, getting into her car, closing the door, and speeding away.
A short while later, she returned with the chair sticking out of her car. It looked pretty perfect to me.
Now that's what I call a great friend, don't you?
HAVE YOU FOUND NICE FURNITURE AT YARD SALES?
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