By Jody Worsham
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reserved for Storage Wars
In Texas, state universities can only sell
state owned property through a silent auction announced to the public. Until my husband became a professor at
Stephen F. Austin State University, I had never heard of a state auction much
less attended one.
It was early in our marriage so we were still
childless and thus had an extra bit of cash.
“Let’s stop
by the silent auction and see if there is anything interesting,” said Dr.
Hubby.
“Ok” never
suspecting what I was in for.
We had only
the bare necessities as far as furniture was concerned so Lots 3,4, and 5 held promise with the chest of
drawers that were displayed. Lots 10 had two bedframes, and lot 45 had a
storage closet displayed. SFAU was demolishing some of the units; those one
story Motel 6 look alike dorms where two units shared a bathroom. Dr. Hubby had stayed there as a student in
the late 50’s. Each shared unit had four
steel twin bedframes, two wardrobe closets, and two chests of drawers and there
were 300 units. Lot 35 interested me as
a theatre student. I saw potential in
the West Point style black SFA band uniform as a costume for a butler or maybe
a train conductor.
“Now do not
make an even bid and do not make it for just dollars” instructed Dr.
Hubby. “I’m going to bid on Lots 3, 4, 5,
10, and 45. Maybe I’ll get one,” and he
was off.
I placed my
bid of $19.21 for the band uniform in a sealed envelope and left it with the
person in charge along with my name and phone number and waited for hubby.
The next day
we got a call. “Hey, honey, I was high
bid on all the lots.”
“That’s
great. So we have three chest of
drawers, two twin bedframes and a closet.”
“The
displayed items were just samples. I
actually bought thirty-five chests of drawers, eighteen wardrobe closets all solid
¾ inch birch, and uh six hundred bedframes.”
“WHAT???? Ok, this is a college town I can see having a
garage sale and getting rid of some of the chest of drawers and making our
money back and the birch will be good for building all kinds of things, but
what are we going to do with three hundred bedframes?
“I’ll think
of something.”
That was what I was afraid of.
“Oh, and you got your band uniform or should I
say band uniforms….there’s two hundred of them.
What are you going to do with two hundred band uniforms?”
“Oh, I don’t
know. Hang them on bedframes and make
two hundred scarecrows?”
1 comment:
LOL! Yes, what does one do with all that stuff? :) I would love to shop at an auction someday but am afraid of what I would buy. I think I'm a bit like your husband. :)
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