Posted by The Famous Grouse on April 15, 2016 at 08:14:53 from (75.146.45.9):
In Reply to: Scrap Prices posted by Danny Prosser on April 14, 2016 at 10:18:25:
Too bad scrap prices have crashed.
There's an old biddy that lives down the road that leads into my hunting property. My buddy bought off all the farmland that went with her place, but she still owns 3 acres and the old shelter belt is dang near 100% made up of junk cars, not trees.
It looks like busted @ss. It's a huge eyesore, but since it's not a junkyard business, the township can't or won't crack down on her.
Back when prices were really high years ago, my friend that bought off the farmland went to see her and said, hey we just had a guy come out and haul off scrap and got good money for it. You're sitting on about 10,000 in junk cars stacked out in that shelter belt, why not sell?
Well the old biddy had the guy come out and he said, 12,500 cash money for all that cr@p but only if we do the deal today.
Well for whatever reason, that gets her thinking she's sitting on a gold mine so she told him to take a hike. Well, it must have been eating at her or she needed money, so 5 years later she calls the guy back. He says, fine, but now the price is 2500.
The Scrap Man said she squealed like a pig and cussed him out for about 30 minutes on the phone. He put her on speaker phone and the guys in the office were dying laughing. Every time she'd lose steam, he'd stoke her up again with, "Well, you should have sold when the price was high. Now it's low..." Squeaaaaaaaal, cuss, cuss, cuss, squeeeeeeeeeal..." She'd start up again.
Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid. It was great when the price was high because a lot of sh!theap properties got cleaned up finally, but it wasn't near enough.
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