The furniture store on my corner! Deals abound!

I should have taken photos. Perhaps tomorrow I will. For some reason the four corners close to my small place have become a repository for crappy, leftover, ratty, torn, scarred and ugly furniture. We are talking here about a three piece sofa that looks like it was in someone's backyard for months with cats living on it and rats frollicking about and birds pooping on the entire thing. And now it's at the corner, near the preschool daycare.  Yesterday when I was walking Cooper early in the morning there was a person sleeping on it, the three sofa cushions on top of him!  It was disconcerting, to say the least.

On another corner is a pile of stuff with a sign that says "Free!"  Like these are great items, come and get them before the sale is over!  Here's the inventory: a microwave oven with a dent on the top and with no door. (Really, how will that actually work? But Free!) A set of four plastic kitchen chairs that have the bottoms torn out so no one would  be able to sit on them. (Again, how will that work? But Free!) And finally, an filthy and torn ottoman that should be schlepped to the corner across the street to join the three piece sofa, they look like victims of the same trauma.

Finally, on the third corner are two things: a cardboard box with the word "FREE" (in capital letters) and a kid car seat without any sort of straps with which to secure a kid.  Hmmm..... I peek into the FREE box and there are two cans of tomato paste and two boxes of dried pasta and one can of chow mein noodles. I would assume these have expiration dates of many moons ago. Why not chuck those into the trash can?  A homeless person might pick up a can of fruit but boxes of pasta?  And the other item: a car seat without any straps to secure a kid?  What is the point and again, just toss in in the dumpster that is sitting just across that corner.

Ah, it defies explanation, I know that. There is no logic. It is sad. But one block away, in the legit JC area, this would never happen. I kid you not, one block away is zero tolerance for anything left on a corner unless it is tidy and possibly attractive. My block, bring it on! Repository for anything, rotten and disgusting? Sure! The only good thing about this situation is that for a night or two (until the vermin arrive) is that a homeless person can sleep on something other than the cold concrete. Those sofas will sit there for three weeks, guaranteed.  It is what it is.

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