So, I have been known to stop and give a new life (and home) to something someone else has discarded. Like the high chair and bouncy seat down the road that was clean and was no longer needed by its family. Like the gas grill that the family a few doors down didn't need any more because they decided to upgrade: It even came with the tank! Though I didn't need it, I knew someone who was looking for a grill. They came and picked it up that day. Like the flat screen T.V. that was sitting on the curb that had lost its remote. A little work on the cord and the T.V. will be perfect (plus a universal remote).
So, I wasn't surprised when my son yelled in to his mother, "Mom! Come outside and look what I found!" I was busy in the kitchen cleaning up, and though I heard him, I wasn't in a hurry to go look. After all, he called his mother. But then, came this reply from my dear wife, "Oh, my! What is it?"
With that response I knew I had to go look. At the bottom of the steps was a pump. Not a bicycle pump. Not an air pump at all. It was a pump from a backyard pool. You know. The kind every kid wants in their backyard but their parents never want to spend the money on.
Ever in a hurry to get out of the house, in order to get the chores and errand completed in time, I grabbed the pump and took it to the garage, yelling to the kids to get into the van. Head count...Me, my wife, and the baby...missing...two kids...
Then, I climbed out of the van and noticed my son, far down the street.
Soon, helped by his younger brother.
Well. Now it sits on our side lawn. It's the middle of October!
What in the heck am I going to do that THAT?!
- My son is driven.
- He is independent.
- He is a thinker.
- And he is just like me...only on a much GRANDER scale.
He even had the nerve to say, "Now I hope you understand why I dig through the trash! I find such GREAT STUFF!"
No one can ever say of me that I have brought anything home that held 1,000 gallons of water and took up half the lawn!
On the bright side, NOW THE PUMP WON'T BE LONELY.
LOL My son brought home two big TVs and not the flat screen type either. They were too big an heavy for him to take home so he convinced the guy giving them away to put them in his truck and follow my son home. He also carried them into the house...how thoughtful. (Daddy took them to DI a week later.)
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