White Elephant Sale Haul

So the theory was that I was going to spruce up my Spring/Summer work wardrobe at the Oakland Museum White Elephant Sale, like I have the last couple of years. ( But somehow I went astray. )

I'd been noticing this year that an awful lot of my friends were talking about having gone to various of the advance sales and asked one of the volunteers about that. I guess in addition to the Preview Sale in January (for which I think you have to be a museum society member) you can get in to the advance sales by donating a certain value of items for the sale. I think I'll have to look into how that works. Given the stuff I find on the one "official" sale weekend, it's intriguing to think what might be there before things get picked over.

AAAIIIIIIII!!!!!

You know those stories about the annoying problems people encounter after accidentally dropping their cell phone into a toilet. And you know how you asked yourself, "How in the world could someone be so 'talented' as to drop their cell phone in a toilet?" Well, let me tell you about one possible path to that outcome.

First, you buy a pair of pants that -- unlike all normal and natural pairs of pants -- has no front pockets. But it does have a single back pocket. A somewhat shallow back pocket. So you stick your cell phone in that pocket because, after all, one must put it somewhere.

Then an hour or so later, at a point when you are no longer consciously aware of where you've put your cell phone, you feel the call of nature and you lift the lid, turn around, begin to drop your pants, and hear a sinister "ploop" when no ploop should yet be plooping.

I'm sure there are many other, equally "amusing" stories out there in the wide world. In the morning, I shall go out and buy more moisture-absorbing packets to supplement the one I stole out of my camera case and we shall see what we shall see.