It is the Community Attic Spring sale, the Community Attic is the little secondhand
store across the street and the senior center. It's a cute little
facility management cranky old ladies were also nice but very
protective over there little operation. They have your basic items
like mismatched silverware, dishes, cups and saucers all manners of
clothing and various odds and ends similar to what you'd find at a
garage sale. I did not realize at first but the Community Attic is
the home of items left in apartments here at the complex when the
renter dies and the family or whoever doesn't want to clean the
apartment out. All the stuff that sellable ends up in the attic.
I love a sale and even
though I've been at this facility for now going on three years I'm
still looking for things for my kitchen and bathroom are whatever
treasures might pop up at a place like the Community Attic. Normally,
the attic is comprised of two very small rooms that may have been
closets at one time an enlarged to one room for the shop but on
Spring sale a lot of the material that's been stored off premise is
brought in and set up in the area next to the shop which is also the
lunchroom, community area. Wandering around the aisles of discarded
items is creepily like hanging out at a estate sale. You can only
deny the reality of what you're doing so long before you must accept
the fact that you're going through the remains of somebody's life. I
wonder what conversations that coffee cup had or how many Christmas
dinners that find China's Disher plate served. Same with the close
hanging up on the long racks. Faded skirts, trousers I don't even
want to think about strange pieces of undergarments and even a table
of weird stuff children's toys the kind you often see attached the
grandmas wheelchairs, beds are on their dressers. Then there's even a
section of electronic and quasi-devices, equipment and resources.
Scores of movies: videocassettes, DVDs and even CD-ROMs. As far as
I'm concerned this is where the real treasures are found in a joint
like this. The trouble is for me these items are always stacked on
top of each other on tables or around corners right can't get to in
my big power chair and limited hand function. But I'm forced to look
anyway. I don't know I got depressed the second I started looking and
realizing there is really nothing there I want to see that was and
tell I happen to see the DVD Patton, that great soldier from World
War II. I don't know why I felt that I needed to have this film, and
I really liked the film the first time I saw it every time sense. I
love George C Scott, do such a great job with that role or any other
role I've seen them in. I grabbed the film and wandered around the
gym a little longer just play like I was interested in checked out. I
was pleased to find the film cost one dollar. One dollar for Patton!
Such a deal. I brought a home and the movie is laying on my desk and
I haven't watched the DVD yet. I'm going to wait probably until bad
weather moves in and I'm forced to stay inside and have nothing else
better to do than to once again watch this depiction of an old war
horse and marble at how these people, those that did, survive the
giant meatgrinder of World War II…
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