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[Dftodd]

Yeah Craigslist brings all the loons out to play. Leftover vinyl siding and a 'treasured bicycle' were offered as exchange for a tractor I listed.

Last week I put an antique solid oak end-table at the curb at our home in town, with a Free sign on it. No interest. Next day I put it on CL, free. Just when my one caller came to pick it up, some lady from a few blocks over said she had noticed it earlier and wanted it now. Sorry lady, its promised to this guy arriving now, precisely noon, just as he said. She was PO'd. Can't please everyone!

List on CL ... expect comedy.

We used to just place old furniture out on the curb. You look out later, you would see a couple neighbors kids hauling it off down the street.

If it was junk, they would return it

 

[goeduck]

She then got trolled by some a$$hat who was demanding she deliver the free bed to them.

Deliver it to the curb .

 

[kenmbz]

Eyeball estimate, about 12 ft x 30 inch diameter. No major knots, a few at 1 inch. Straight.

This fell across my entrance on January 7. The neighbor who contracts to operate my apple orchard cut up and shredded most of the debris until he got to the point where he didn't have a chainsaw long enough to take another slice off it.

A photo the day after it fell. All that remains today is the log. My little Yanmars can lift the lighter end of it but I couldn't set it on a trailer, it would have to be winched on.

I was curious if this variety, Acacia, would be considered an exotic for veneer, inlay, or something. There are a few hobby sawmills around here.

I have an Acacia table in my gazebo that I bought in Thailand. They make great furniture and can take weather.

 

[MoMower]

Oh, for sure there are jackwads out there that want to 'police' others. 100% seen a bunch of them over the decades. But more often than not the folks I encounter acting like this are just oblivious yahoos.

And your solution in that case was spot on. People like that should have their license revoked.

I just pass them when safe to do so, want to drive under speed for no obvious reason they should expect it.

 

[Jstpssng]

I just pass them when safe to do so, want to drive under speed for no obvious reason they should expect it.

Too often they speed up when you could safely pass them; whether because they feel comfortable doing so, or because they just want to be jerks.
It's illegal in many if not most states to speed up when somebody is trying to pass you, yet rather difficult to enforce.

 

[jjeff]

Pet peeve and running at or below speed limit hit a passing lane suddenly there in the Daytona 500. If I'm lucky they will bother them selves to move into the left lane That's when I wish I was a dumb kid opening up 6.6 ltrs of turbo diesel frustratingly wishing my Duramax was modified to "burn/roll coal" lol

 

[Jstpssng]

Pet peeve and running at or below speed limit hit a passing lane suddenly there in the Daytona 500. If I'm lucky they will bother them selves to move into the left lane That's when I wish I was a dumb kid opening up 6.6 ltrs of turbo diesel frustratingly wishing my Duramax was modified to "burn/roll coal" lol

That is a too common occurrence, and would be a good place for an LEO to set up with radar.
Yet what is equally frustrating is when you hold a steady speed all of the way up the hill while in the right lane... yet somebody waits until it's are merging back into one lane, then comes flying up to pass you.
I almost wrecked last weekend, I waited for him to pass several times before we got to the hill, but he didn't. I held it right at 60 the full length of the hill, he stayed about 6 car lengths back. He was still there when the lane ended so I started to merge... only to find him next to my rear tire. I had to lock the brakes to let him by, as there was an oncoming car.

 

[two_bit_score]

Deliver it to the curb .

THEIR curb.

 

[sixdogs]

Yeah Craigslist brings all the loons out to play. Leftover vinyl siding and a 'treasured bicycle' were offered as exchange for a tractor I listed.

Last week I put an antique solid oak end-table at the curb at our home in town, with a Free sign on it. No interest. Next day I put it on CL, free. Just when my one caller came to pick it up, some lady from a few blocks over said she had noticed it earlier and wanted it now. Sorry lady, its promised to this guy arriving now, precisely noon, just as he said. She was PO'd. Can't please everyone!

List on CL ... expect comedy.

I offered a couple free things on Craigslist and one guy came out to pick up a pile of long cutoff hardwood strips from a cabinet shop. He was a college prof if it matters.

He was late so wasted my time there, left assorted zip ties in my yard along with some trash and never said than you.


I too have had people ask me to deliver things for them. I think they catch my drift when I chuckle out loud.

Once I did deliver something when the guy offered me $15 delivery on an overpriced $75 TV. He said he had no transportation since his wife recently left and "took everything" except a stool. Fat chance, I thought.
He sounded OK so I agreed and when I got to his trailer, it was 100% empty, including the drapes and all he had was the stool. He said he could watch TV that way.

 

[5030]

I avoid CL as a rule. Don't like low ballers and tire kickers.