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Message:: [QUOTE="Potteryplease, post: 9610717, member: 16407"]One day a few years ago, I'm going for a walk and I see a garage sale. It has lots of boxes. One of them has probably 30 of these: [ATTACH=full]468079[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]468080[/ATTACH] The guy at the sale has written "$5" on the side of the box they're all in. I pick one up, look at it, and say to him, "They're $5 each?" "No," he says. "It's $5 for all of them." "I'll take 'em." I keep looking around. There's some wood carved angels-- the kind where you hang it from the ceiling and then pull a string on the bottom and the body goes up and down, making the wings rise and fall. There's some T-shirts with butterflies and such. There's a box of these blue monkey-guys with huge phalluses. I'm assuming they're fertility carvings: [ATTACH=full]468081[/ATTACH] I ask, "How much are these?" "10 bucks." Sold. (The one in these pictures is actually in my friend's flower gardens: she thinks it's hilarious.) [ATTACH=full]468082[/ATTACH] "What's going on here?" I ask. Apparently, the guy used to own a local  retail shop, was married to an Indonesian woman, traveled to Indonesia often, imported these kinds of things for cheap, and these things were old inventory he still had on-hand when his shop closed for good. "You got any other stuff?" I ask. "Yeah, there's a lot in the basement. You wanna see it?" Of course! He has boxes of carved bone blow guns. They look like long bone dragons, but if you take the 'tail' part off, it's a smooth metal tube that can (and does!) shoot blow darts. He has bamboo blow guns. Blow darts for all of them. Bows and strings. Boxes of hand-made arrows. I end up buying it all. I walk home and get my car and come back. I pay about $100 for everything. I bring it all home, and start unpacking and showing my 'finds' to my wife and son who are sitting on the steps, in front of our house, in disbelief. I hang the shirts and angels in our tree as I'm unpacking. After a while, a car driving by stops, and a guy gets out. He thinks I'm having a garage sale myself. I go with it. He looks at the stuff I've unpacked and wants to buy the Tshirts and angels. "How much?" he asks. "$50" I say. He buys them. I eventually move it all into my basement and over the next few years, I sell most of it, in a variety of ways: I sell a couple blow guns at the antique mall, but I sell 100 of them all at once on craigslist, to an artist who says he wants  to use them to make a giant collage of the sun. (I asked him to text me a picture when he does, but I never heard from him.) I sell other blowguns and darts at several of my own, actual garage sales. The arrows are still in my basement. This is the story of my Indonesian garage sale, and I hereby swear that all of this is true. For real. [ATTACH=full]468083[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]468084[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]468085[/ATTACH] Lemme know if you need any arrows.[/QUOTE]

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