Post-Garage Sale Refrain

Those $30 Space Invaders and Asteroid cabinets must not have worked.
Those $30 Space Invaders and Asteroid cabinets must not have worked.
Those $30 Space Invaders and Asteroid cabinets must not have worked.

Because if they had, I would have had to buy them out of principle. So I didn’t even ask, because of course the owners must have known the real value of working games. So I didn’t heed the spontaneous stories in my mind that would have explained it….such as their belonging to the woman’s ex-husband….and drove away.

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1 thought on “Post-Garage Sale Refrain

  1. Might also have had something to do with the wife muttering “we don’t have room for those” as though it were a mantra…

    hln

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