Oliver Crane

Dreams can made from a dollar

Garage sales seem to be exclusively american, I guess the english equivalent is a car boot sale, but I think I prefer garage sales. It's a more intimate way of shopping through someone else's personal rubbish, toot and supposed heirlooms. In England you would be mortified to open up the side of your house and wait for any passing stranger to come wandering in and finger through your old belongings, which regardless of the dust they have gathered over the years, you still have an affection for. No, the english are much more comfortable with arriving at a school car park at 5am on a chilly sunday morning to stand with 50 other people trying to make a few quid, which will most likely be used to buy more rubbish, toot and heirlooms to sell at another car boot sale in 10 years time. But here in the U S of A the natural pride of Americans really comes out when you pull up, step onto the strangers lawn, walk up to the little table (like I am now) and “Hi, what you spotted? I got some great stuff here.” says the overweight, sweaty man sitting in his lawn chair like its a throne, he’s wearing a hawaiin shirt, beige cargo shorts and interrupting my train of thought mate you couldn’t look more like a stereotype if you tried.