Oh I understand now.....
Stopped at Sams Club Sunday on my way to the matinee performance of Annie and as I was leaving I saw someone attempting to do this....
with one of these....
I noticed around the car various piles of things you might find in a car. Repair ramps, fire extinguisher, a sleeping bag, spare tire, a few boxes of assorted stuff and a baby carriage. All this had been taken out of the trunk in a vain effort to see if removing the stuff would some how make the opening of the trunk bigger. It didn't, so now they had removed the freezer from it's box (hey it's 4 inches smaller all the way around now) and were attempting to pry it onto the front seat. I wish I had noticed exactly what kind of car it was. Trust me when I say that it was no bigger then a Ford Escort and there was no way it was going to fit in the front door let alone allow the door to close at all.
After I stopped chuckling to myself I took pity on their plight and as I was walking by I asked the women who looked 50(ish) which direction they were headed. She responded by saying "Kenwood". I don't which direction Kenwood was and she obviously thought I knew where the street was. I didn't so I asked "north, south etc...." She said Kenwood again and this time added "Court". Yea we're making progress since I know where Court St is. I offered that I had a pickup and a few minutes and would deliver the freezer. She seemed to nod acquiescence and so I walked to my truck and drove it over to the entrance where this parody was playing out. Her son (I found out later) and the SamsClub guy re-boxed the freezer and put it on the back of my truck. We bungied it and I looked over to the young man (maybe 20) and said "are you with the freezer?" He said. "no I'm with my mom". What we had here was a failure to communicate. I said "mom's freezer ?" he nodded and now we understood each other. I noticed mom looking at me a little funny and I realized that this had all happened pretty fast and she was probably wondering if I was some kind of appliance thief. Someone lurking around parking lots of department stores offering to help bring home the goods and instead stealing them and hawking them on the lucrative black freezer market or is it freezer black market. So I said to the son, "why don't you ride with me." Instant relief across the face of mom as she realized I might steal the freezer but probably not the son.
So off we went up to Kenwood and dropped off the freezer. I said so long to the son and headed for the truck. He says "hang on a minute" as he's walking toward the house. I say back "I don't want any money" he says "I know" but promptly re-appears with a $20 bill. I give up !
No, I didn't take the twenty.
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