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The Story of How I Got Rid of the Gas Stove

A chat transcript recorded earlier today:

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:17 AM]:
well, i have a pretty funny story from last night

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:17 AM]:
so i finally got rid of the stove that’s been on craigslist

Gentry, Stephen Murphy Jr. [8:17 AM]:
yeah?

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:17 AM]:
the Reverend King showed up about 5pm apparently from the absolute sticks

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:18 AM]:
he pulls up in this, like 1970s station wagon pulling a trailer behind it, with his old as dirt wife in the passenger seat

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:18 AM]:
he’s short and fat and apparently has a bad ankle as he waddles in

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:18 AM]:
well, he gets in and first i tell him it’s down the stairs, so that’s an ordeal

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:19 AM]:
but finally we get down there and he wants to buy it; he asks me how much and i just say $10

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:19 AM]:
so we have a deal, but of course also a problem

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:19 AM]:
dave and I barely got this stove inside with the both of us

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:19 AM]:
now it’s just me and Reverend King with a bad ankle who barely could get himself down the stairs

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:19 AM]:
so, he has a dolly with him, and I think

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:20 AM]:
hmm, I’m pretty sure I could get the stove out the back on the dolly just by lowering it down the stairs

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:20 AM]:
so I get it all loaded up and get to the top of my back stairs in the basement

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:21 AM]:
and then, well, about as I was going down the first stair I have what I would like to call an “oh crap this was a terrible idea” moment

Gentry, Stephen Murphy Jr. [8:21 AM]:
lololol

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:21 AM]:
and, essentially, the story is

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:21 AM]:
me and the stove fell down the flight of stairs

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:21 AM]:
and the stove broke into about, 5 pieces

Gentry, Stephen Murphy Jr. [8:21 AM]:
hahahahahahahahaha

Gentry, Stephen Murphy Jr. [8:21 AM]:
i’m laughing out loud

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:21 AM]:
so there I am, on my lawn with the stove and the dolly all in a big pile

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:22 AM]:
and my stove is literally now a pile of metal

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:22 AM]:
but, the good part is the pieces aren’t really broken so much as come apart

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:22 AM]:
so I hand the Reverend King his $10 back

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:22 AM]:
and he says he’ll still take it to see if he can get it to work

Schlomann, Nathanael Tod [8:23 AM]:
well, it being in several pieces made it much easier to load onto his trailer