A Re-run

This re-run is inspired by some snappy patter that took place in comments to yesterday's abbreviated post:

Weirdness

Here's a strange one: My Ex-Wife's Wedding Dress.  From the "About" section (punctuation left "as found"):

My wife of 12 years recently packed up her belongings and moved out of our home. After her car was loaded I couldn't help but notice that a single item remained in her section of our closet, her wedding dress.

"You forgot something" I told her.

She replied "And what's that?".

"Your wedding dress", I said.

"Yeah, I am not taking that" was her response.

"What do you expect me to do with it?" I asked.

And to that she replied, "Whatever the $%^@# you want".

And this is what I did.....

The author is up to 50 uses as of last night, including pasta strainer, oil change drop-cloth, and so on.  I applaud the concept and wish I had thought of it. But then again, there was no such thing as a "blog" when the maid quit.  She did, however, leave her dress behind.  I sold it in my Going Out of Bid'niz sale for ten dollars more than she paid for it.  (The Second Mrs. Pennington, being a very frugal sort, bought the dress in a second-hand store.  Srsly.)  Here's the dress, laid out across the back of a couch (which went in that very same sale).

Someone got a good deal for only $30.00 US.  Worn once, and all that.  Well, twice maybe.  It was second hand.  True Story, swear to The Deity At Hand.

H/T:  The Awl. 

So... just for grins and giggles I went to the "My Ex-Wife's Wedding Dress" link and it looks like the boy turned his life around, what with turning his blog into a book and getting re-married.   I didn't dive too deeply into the blog, but it looks like he MIGHT have proposed to his new wife on Facebook.  If that's the case I predict a sequel to his book... "101 Uses for my Second Ex-Wife's Wedding Dress."

 

Tacky.