Then, this guy with a ponytail started walking toward an old Lucite picture frame I had been considering, and I slid across the room like Derek Jeter. Still, I felt a little weird. This was someone's . . . Excuse me, but I'm taking that lamp. No, I don't seem to be holding it because I'm looking for something to hit you with if you don't put it down.
Tag sales are pretty similar, except the owners are usually moving or divorcing.
That, or they simply looked around the house one day and realized that they hadn't thrown anything away in 45 years. In my experience, people who are in the process of moving or divorcing are generally stressed out and much harder to deal with than people who are deceased. Occasionally, folks will have a tag sale but put signs up all over the place announcing an estate sale, to lure in unsuspecting idiots such as myself. Each chair weighed about 600 pounds. As had become my custom by this point, I asked the woman in charge about the person whose estate I was plundering.