Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Seriously! A Camera Crew For Hick!

There's never a dull moment in Hick's daily travels. Whether it be a dude shooting off Hick's for-sale taser at his Storage Unit Store, or the police arriving to subdue an irate woman at the pawn shop. Hick leads a selectively charmed life. He can't win on a scratcher ticket, but aside from that, he must have pockets stuffed with four-leaf clovers. Not only does he have me waiting at home (!), he has good luck following him like that cloud of dirt around Charlie Brown's buddy Pigpen.

I got a text from Hick yesterday afternoon at 12:37...

"You won't believe what I just got for free. Casey's was putting new trash cans out. I got all six of their old trash cans."

"Wow! Treasures fall into your lap! Send a picture."

"Yeah. I was getting lawnmower gas and I seen the guy rolling it out. I said, 'Unless you're getting their cans, how can I have the old ones?' He said, 'Let me ask the manager.' He come back out and said, 'They're free.' I got four of these, and two round ones."

"What are you going to do with them?"

"I don't know yet."

"Are you giving one to HOS? So he has a trash can at the $5000 house?"

"I hadn't thought about it."

At 12:51, a mere 15 minutes later... I got another text from Hick:

"I just called in on the radio and won two tickets for the rodeo this weekend."

"More treasures. Big lap. Maybe something else will fall into it."

Let the record show that last Monday, Hick called in on the radio, and won a flag for Flag Day. A couple years ago, he somehow won 3 Thanksgiving turkeys, from a raffle, a radio call-in, and a method I can't remember.

His Casey's trash cans will be a good addition to the giant Save A Lot sight he used for a wall on the lean-to of his BARn. They were putting up a new sign a few years back, and Hick asked if he could have the old one. Of course they gave it to him. For free.

He might need to build another shed.

12 comments:

  1. A new reality TV show, "Hickers."

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  2. I wouldn't mind one of those Casey's bins myself. No good asking for stuff around here, you get told "sorry, these get sent back", or things get changed over in the middle of the night so no one knows until stores open again next day.

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    1. I would never think to ask for that stuff. I'd imagine they were probably going to be recycled.

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  3. I think Hick attracts things; it's his magnetic persoanlity.

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    1. Hick used to talk about some guy he knew. "He always seems to fall backasswards into money." I guess Hick does the same, into JUNK!

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  4. Those are great trashcans. He can probably sell them to another business.

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    1. I'm thinking Hick might take one of them to his Storage Unit Store to put on display for sale. The problem will be keeping people from putting trash in it!

      He always has people wanting to buy the display cases that his smaller/more valuable merchandise is in. So far he's said no, but for the right price, I think he'd sell a display case. He definitely has other business people perusing his wares.

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  5. Wow! I might just send my Fred Sanford out to beg for trashcans at Casey's! Can't have too many trash cans, getting people to actually use them is the problem here.

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    1. I don't know if I should tell Hick that the Casey's over in Sis Town has a sign up about remodeling their drive-thru. They might be getting rid of stuff, too.

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    2. He could sell them! Nothing cheaper than free and whatever he makes is all profit!

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