Item 24: An old beach chair

This chair is 15 to 20 years old.  At one time it belonged to one of my brothers.  He purchased a new chair and was planning to throw this one in the trash.  At the time, it wasn't broken.  It was actually in very good shape.  So I took it from him and used it for quite awhile.  But alas, I stopped using it for the same reasons he did:  it has a low back and doesn't recline.  In addition to those two reasons it needed to be re-worked with new strips of whatever they call the fabric used on these chairs.

Approximately 10 years ago I bought a new beach chair which I still use.  It has a high back, reclines and it has a very pretty blue fabric with a tropical fish pattern on it. This old chair was relegated to the basement where it would be repaired by Dave and then put it back into service.  Approximately 5 years ago I bought Dave a beach chair for his birthday.  Now we have two beach chairs that recline and have a high back.  This one was still in the basement waiting for repair.

The time has come to move it out.  Dave put it out with the trash last week.  It was there with the trash when I left for the pool at 5:15 AM.  It was there when I returned from the pool at approximatley 6:45 AM. Sometime between 6:45 and 7:20 AM someone took the chair!

I love that about people around here.  If they see something out at the curb and they like it, they take it!  I'm guilty of it myself.  I've brought home terra cotta pots and plants and a few other items.  One time when I was out for my Saturday morning walk, I found a baby stroller out at the curb. It was a cast-off from a garage sale.  It was dirty but otherwise it looked to be in good shape.  As I was checking it out the lady who owned it came out of the house.  She told me sheused to push her dogs around in it;  what a hoot!  That explained the dirt.  Other than being dirty, it had one wobbly wheel.  I decided to take it and pushed it the rest of the way home (about a mile and a half) to finish out my walk.  I'm sure I was quite the site.  Later that day Dave washed it up and greased the wheels and voila, we have a nearly brand new baby stroller.  We've used it a few times when Ben has been over to visit.  Since it was free we don't care that it doesn't get used much.

Back to the beach chair:  hopefully whoever took it will repair and use the chair because it's a nice chair and in very good shape other than the torn strips.