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Heartbreaker Throwaways
ndbilly
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Mr. Member Rembrandt started a post a few days ago about how we just can't throw anything away, even when there's no obvious use for the item. How about some stories of those things that were pitched by a well-meaning friend or family member without your knowledge or consent? No comic book or baseball card collection stories, please. Here's my worst, and unfortunately true, story.Left home at eighteen and no more wanted anything to do with the old hometown or, especially, the old high school than I did with a bout of the plague. Just wanted to get on with all those great adventures I was sure were just around the corner. Took a siutcase and not much else. Fifteen years later, bloody but unbowed and a lot wiser, I returned for my 15th high school reunion. The old nostagia factor was running high. Wouldn't it be cool, I thought, to wear my letter jacket to the reunion? Leather sleeves, name embroidered on the inside of the pocket, etc. Mom, where's my old letter jacket? In the attic, dear. Mom, I looked all over, it's not there. Well, that's where it was the last time I saw it. Finally, after my third fruitless trip to the attic, the old girl broke down and cofessed that, a few years before, she had given the jacket to a friend of my brother's who drove a coal truck for a living. He just looked like he was cold all the time and you weren't wearing the jacket, etc., etc. Ever been around coal in any quantity or for any period of time? Outside of crude oil, it's the filthiest, grimiest stuff on the planet. Upshot was, my irreplaceble letter jacket had gone to that big coal bucket in the sky. It's not like you could even scour the antique shops or auction sites for a replacement. This one was mine. I still weep.
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