People are strange

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During the Covid lockdown period, when no-one was allowed to go to the tip or to a charity shop with unwanted items, people in the village started to leave unwanted things outside their houses so that anyone passing on the daily ‘constitutional’ they were permitted could just take them away when they went past if they wanted. This habit has persisted and now people still leave things outside quite often. I must have seen at least a dozen boxes or piles of stuff outside houses when I was out and about at the weekend. It’s quite a nice idea, but it doesn’t always work for the best – if it rains for example, and someone has left books or magazines outside, no-one wants the soggy books and the owners don’t want to take them back either, so they basically just become litter. Anyway I digress… A couple of days ago I noticed someone at the end of our road had left a chest of drawers outside on the roadside. After two or three days it was still there, and I thought ‘I’m sure I saw someone on Freegle asking for a chest of drawers’ so when I got home I browsed through the posts and found a recent wanted post asking for a chest of drawers. I replied saying that neighbours had one for the taking, and attached a photo. The next day I got a reply saying ‘Not sure why you sent me this’. I would have thought it was obvious but I actually had to explain that it was because I had seen a chest of drawers being offered for free, and she had posted a wanted ad for a free chest of drawers! Is that strange or was I just expecting too much? All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.