A real-life honest-to-goodness made-me-smile conversation…
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“I ain’t afraid of no ghost.”
I met a friend for drinks and dinner. She got talking about her part-time business, which is selling antiques.
She scouts around local Goodwills and garage sales, then takes her finds, tidies them up a bit, and puts them in a rented booth in an antique mall. She’s done this for years, turning a modest profit on her efforts.
My friend told me that a ghost is now haunting her booth. This ghost, who isn’t pleased with the way my friend is merchandising her hats and jewelry, moves items around within the booth.
And the ghost has gone so far as to break an item. Bad ghost!
Come to find out this problem is part of dealing in antiques. [Read more here.] According to my friend you learn to accept the fact that as long as you have an item a ghost has attached itself to, you’re going to have difficulties.
Once the item is gone, either through a sale or by intentional destruction, the ghost leaves you alone.
The trick, of course, is figuring out which item is the one that has brought the ghost to your booth.
So far my friend has not been able to do this on her own, so she’s enlisted the help of other antique booth renters, asking them to keep an eye on her things, in case they see a ghost lurking about.
As one is wont to do, apparently, in antique malls.
Who knew?
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An entertaining ditty for your listening pleasure!
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