Auction

[madscience]

I just returned from the estate auction of an eccentric old man who lived down the street. He was always very reclusive. In the twenty-seven years I lived on this block, I'd only ever see him mow his lawn or tend his flower garden, and then he'd disappear back into the house. I don't think we ever spoke

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Now now, we don't know that he was necessarily paranoid.

[squidb0i]

He was an old man living alone with objects worth stealing, he could simply have been smartly cautious. And those would have been semi-autos, not autos, yes

Re: Now now, we don't know that he was necessarily paranoid.

[squidb0i]

Oh, and his backstory: Jerry was his name. Former radio tech/operator on a merchant marine ship in WWII. Came home to become a TV and radio repairman. Moving out to a retirement home, everything must go. Nice old dude. =]