We offered our foosball table to our neighbor about 4 months ago. A bunch of people said they wanted one of them, but he was very adamant about it. He kept saying he was going to clear a spot for it in his basement. In the meantime, it's taking up half our garage and I'd love for it to stop doing that.
Flash forward a few months to where the new church in Monroe is taking in donations for their free garage sale (yup, everything there will be free) I tell our neighbor that we have an opportunity to give away the tables...but they can still have them if they want them. They tell me they'll pick them up the next day. They were apparently just kidding.
So here's the pickle I'm in - two days later when the helpful people of the Young household come over with a truck - should I give them the foosball tables?
This would make our garage available for both vehicles for the first time since we've been there. This would give the garage sale some big items. This would help us finally clean out and organize our garage.....but could also harbor some weird-it's not really my fault, but they're still mad at me-kind of vibe.
Love our neighbor? Love our space? Love the church that wants to give stuff away to neighbors? What to do...what to do?
dude, ill take it off your hands. i know it would be quite the cost for s/h to floriduh but it would make for a great "out" you can say there is a desperate shortage of fooseball tables in floriduh.....
ReplyDeletei'd say your neighbor's had plenty of chances to be loved... time to move on... show them 'tough love' by letting them know they can't just lead you on all the time and expect the foosball table to still be available whenever they get around to it. maybe they'll follow through a bit better next time.
ReplyDeletei like foosball. :)
Cut the foosball table in half; give half to your neighbor and half to the free garage sale.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
Steve - You are obviously a brilliant leader. Someone get the chainsaw.
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