I see this all the time, but if it wasn't for people like that, I would probably be unemployed. Never look a gift horse in the
mouth.
Steve

"Ignoramus26053" wrote in message ...
On 2010-03-07, GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane wrote:
They were still available after 3:30 Saturday afternoon. People had
called but didn't come over to pick them up at least so far. I
inquired whether I could send him money to put a bunch in a flat rate
box and send them to me, but he didn't want to be bothered.

Not to generalize, but I find people who watch free pickup ads to be
very flaky, stupid, and just incapable of normal human function. As
any generalization, there are exceptions, but the proportion of
unreliable people exceeds all bounds. It is understandable from the
economics standpoint.

A case in point.

I advertised free pallets in the morning today.

One woman called and said that she will pick them up.

She came in a minivan with a husband.

She looked at the pallets, and said, GET THIS: that she needed boards
for her "art paintings" and that these pallets are "too dirty to be
painted".

WTF??? ??????????????? *&^&*%&*%^!!!

I was quite upset by this pallet board art lunacy, and just started
cutting up and burning those m-f-ing pallets in the firepit. My kids
love playing with fire, under my supervision, so we all had a good
time.

So I burned three pallets out of five. Then a guy calls me at 6pm and
says that he wants the remaining pallets. Said he will stop by "very
soon" as he is in a neighboring town.

It is 4 hours later and there is no trace of him.

It is a very typical experience with "freecycle" and "free section of
craigslist" people.

i