[Publib] Where there's a Will...

[Backwage at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/29/2006 8:01:27 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
vesper555 at yahoo.com writes:

Diedre  Conkling <diedrec at charter.net> wrote:

> Shoot, at home I don't  fit into any of your
> categories.  I have a cell phone and  Internet
> through cable tv.  No DSL.  No landline.
>  
> Yeah, I know this wasn't the point. ;-)
> 


I'm just now moving into a new house.  When we saw the place with its  
furnishings intact, I noticed the following:
 
1.  Three phone lines;
2.  One satellite television dish on the roof;
3.  Scads (a scientific term for 'plenty') of speaker wires;
4.  A motion-activated alarm system;
5.  An electronic watering system;
6.  A television set in every room save closets and baths;
 
And--
 
Not a single book in the entire place, save for two coffee table  gift tomes 
about California architecture whose spines cracked when I opened  them.  And 
they had two kids, with another on the way.  In the heap of  trash outside I 
found the family's wedding pictures (!) and a vast archive of  high school 
yearbooks, scrapbooks of earlier vacation trips, and all sorts of  the kind of 
stuff you'd think nobody would ever toss out.  
 
I gave them the benefit of the doubt about the wedding pictures--maybe they  
were of the first wife (the groom was obviously our seller, resplendent in 
wide  lapels and bell-bottoms), but one would think that those pictures would be 
good  for the children to see someday.  I see this stuff at thrift stores all 
the  time: entire collections of pictures or slides intact in boxes, carefully 
 preserved memories and family artifacts tossed out along with busted bread  
machines and chipped china.  
 
Today I go over to the new house and take down the satellite dish,  
disconnect the sprinkler electronics and the alarms.  I'll keep the phone  lines for 
our computers, and I just may grab some of those family albums before  the trash 
collectors get them.  By the way, the seller went to the same  high school as 
my sister-in-law, whose picture graces one of the yearbook  pages.
 
M. McGrorty
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