Thursday, September 22, 2016

Nightmares 'R' Us

Time for more Hick treasures. I feel it's only fitting to share my latest Goodwill with you. Because Val's a giver like that. Hope nobody's reading this with their glass of warm milk, getting ready to toddle off to bed.


I don't know what's up with Hick's fascination with masks. This is the third or fourth one I've seen, and just this evening, when I said, "Why the mask?" he replied, "Oh, you haven't seen all of them I've got over in the BARn."

That's also two ducks (H: "Because I like ducks") and a beer glass shaped like a football. I argued on the beer glass.

"How do you KNOW it's a beer glass? I thought it was a vase. I don't see the football."

"Because it says BEER on the glass, and it's shaped like a football."

Hick is recycling the world's trash four pieces at a time, it seems. Bringing it home to display in his sheds in Shackytown, some already existing, and some just a glimmer in Hick's near-future-retired eye.

Small duck, $1.00. Large duck, $1.00. Beer glass, $1.00. Mask, $1.00.

Nightmare potential? Priceless.

16 comments:

  1. Aren't you tempted to check out the treasures "you haven't seen" while he's away at work?

    He'll never know...

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    1. Oh, I don't know...let me think...that answer would probably be...NO!

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  2. It's sort of shaped like a football...except for the pointy end thing.

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    1. Yeah, and that would be a NOT-HEAVEN of a lot of beer!

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  3. Hick is a funny guy...Most men I've known do not like to go shopping at all, and especially any kind of "junking!" So, now that you're retired, are you writing up a storm??

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    1. Hick's a funny guy all right. A funny guy without much of a sense of humor. My writing, sadly, is not at the storm stage. More like a 30% chance of light drizzle.

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  4. Must be an American football, ours are round. That is a seriously creepy mask, thank god Hick has a shed to keep it in!

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    1. Your beer is thicker, too. The mask might get its own shed once Hick retires. I will make sure that shed door is always locked from the outside.

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  5. I would love to go through Hick's treasures sometime!!

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    1. I would love to give clandestine (do-it-yourself) tours and pocket the admission fee.

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  6. One of these days Hick is going to have the last laugh by coming home with a priceless treasure.

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    1. IF you don't run into him at the Goodwill Store and steal it right out from under him after talking down the price...

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  7. Imagine how you'd have felt if he had wakened you from a nap while he was wearing that mask! But actually I like it and I'm a would-be mask collector, too, so I can't blame Hick.

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    1. Genius did that four or five years ago! I was asleep in my basement recliner, only the TV for light, and he came stomping down the stairs with one of Hick's masks over his face.

      Maybe Hick can find a good used defibrillator.

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  8. Well, at least he organizes his junk and builds housing for them .....

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    1. If he runs out of room for more sheds in Shackytown, I'll tell him he can store his treasures in your car!

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