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To: Rambi who wrote (10535)	5/12/1998 6:25:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

"Dan says either the buyers agree to take it or we don't move..." Yes, I seem to have inadvertently created a similar situation with my garage. This weekend I removed an old over-the-range microwave oven (I come to find out this is called a "microhood" in kitchen contracting lingo, I had thought that was a thug with a pituitary problem) and installed a new one (trust me, it looks a lot easier in the instructions, and they don't look at all easy). Now, you have to understand that San Franciscans are inveterate scroungers and garage sale attenders. Normally if you put something out on the street with even the smallest imaginable residual value, someone will snatch it up within moments. People will fight and kill for stuff in front of a house. Heavy trash pickup day here is some people's shining moment. There are a lot of people who call up the trash guys to map out the heavy pickup schedules for various blocks, with particular attention to the ritzier neighborhoods like Pacific Heights. These are not the riffraff that you'll see doing this elsewhere. Oh no. These are people driving BMW's and sporting wrinkle-free Dockers. Last heavy pickup day I saw one guy put a sixty year old, unimaginably grunged out pedestal sink in the trunk of his Acura. That damn 70-something pound microwave sat like Humpty Dumpty in front of the house for seven solid hours. Nooooo takers, not a one. Finally it started to look like rain. So now it's in the garage. Where it will remain for posteriority. Later, someone (who apparently knows about these things) told me that an old microwave is basically worthless, because if there's anything wrong with it, it costs about as much to fix as it does to get a totally new one. And they all seem to fail when they're almost exactly ten years old. Something or other about a magnetron.

To: Rambi who wrote (10535)	5/12/1998 8:14:00 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 71178

ideograms I didn't even think about it and it passed the spelling checker and it was what I thought it was, when I just now looked it up and confirmed it. But for a moment I had great doubt. I thought that "Oh, boy I used a word that I didn't really know and Merriam Westbrook busted me." Not that this would not surprise me, mind you. Just that it may have been a foreshadowing of the fact that the grim reaper date calculator was more accurate than I had imagined. That maybe the most optimistic setting I could find there, short of lying abut my birth date, was not as far away as I might have hoped or been led to expect. Since the pessimistic setting has me dead already 17 years, and waiting for that Penni to show up here, I was wondering if this was was all becoming a waking dream. If my faculties were shrinking, well yes I know they are, but shrinking at a rate that is a little faster than say a Knicks crowd when they are trailing by 20 in the fourth period. Well let me tell you I was enormously relieved to see that all was still well in the ideogram department. That it had not in fact been taken over by those idiotgram guys. By golly I'm just going to beat that grim reaper java applet, platform independence and all.