Happy Hoarder Day # 56 A Gentleman Caller April
20, 2015
A journey into cleaning up a
big pile of..... hoard
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A Gentleman Caller
by Janet S. Tiger
(c) 2015 all rights reserved
I am sorry to have taken this long
to write - I have still been de-cluttering, but somehow the writing about it has
been difficult. Okay, it's bad enough having to throw out this stuff, but
even worse telling the world about it - I can hear people everywhere on the
Internet laughing at the weird things that I have saved, and how hard it is to
let them go.
But the one advantage - the one
reliable constant throughout all this has been....my gentleman caller.
When I was younger, I had other gentleman callers (okay, by the time I was
dating, they were called guys) But these guys brought things to my door -
flowers, candy, perfume....the occasional painting. Now, I have too
much, and I am married. But the idea of a gentleman caller is
old-fashioned and reassuring. And I may be married, but I still enjoy
that every Monday, a nice young man comes to my door....he smiles if I see him,
he is pleasant....and he ......takes away my junk.
He is the Amvets pick-up
driver. He does not need a pick-up line, this gentleman caller. I
call him, or rather, I call Amvets to come for my leftovers every Monday.
Just like all affairs, some weeks
are better than others. There is....more. More stuff to give
away. I am not embarrassed by having only one meager box, I have three or
four! And some weeks, I have to take things from next to dumpsters to
have something nice to donate - something other than old swim glasses and
washed out towels. Something like a pretty purple vacuum cleaner that
looks like new.
But my gentleman caller does not
judge me. He picks up all the boxes regardless of his own personal
opinion. And the stuff is gone. Oh, wait, is that him now? He
is like a knight in shining metal wellpainted truck......and he even wears a
brown suit of sorts - oh, well, I was always a sucker for a man in
uniform......
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Janet S. Tiger 858-736-6315
JanetSTigerMonologueMania.blogspot.com
Member Dramatists Guild since 1983
Playwright-in-Residence
Swedenborg Hall 2006-8
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