It's Gone!

We had a perfectly serviceable barbecue. It was of the black painted variety and I agree it was a little rusty and the burner had a "hot spot" but it passed my test, it still worked. Yesterday, Norma snuck down to the store, sale flyer in hand, and returned with a brand new, stainless steel BBQ. I am sure most of you have bought these "assembly required" devices. I probably should have a head start having assembled complicated communications equipment from boxes full of parts in my work life but this monstrosity almost had me stumped. Norma came out to "help" but that turned into an almost argument so she retreated into the house and left me with it.

I finally got it to look mostly like the picture on the box and had only one screw and two washers left over. I hooked up the tank, turned on the side burner and what do you know, it lit! "Yes Norma, you can put the fire extinguisher away"!

By now Beau, Norma's lawn boy was here so I asked him to help me carry the old rusty BBQ down to the street. I had printed two signs, one for each side that said, "FREE - WORKS" which I taped to the sides facing traffic. About six minutes later Beau called into the house, "It's gone"! Some guy in a truck stopped, asked Beau if it really was free for the taking and loaded it up before Beau could offer to help. The old, rusty, expired tank went with it and still had propane in it so the lucky new owner could cook with it that night if he wanted.