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Re: LOAF a new acronym
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Sat, 4 Mar 2000 05:39:49 GMT
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cmasi@cmasi.NOSPAMchem.tulane.edu
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Ah... to have been on the lawn on that fine smelly day. What a missed opportunity for
the rest of us! Glad to hear that you didn't loose anything.
Chris
Mr L F Braun wrote:
> Christopher Masi wrote:
>
> > Wow, so moany others suffering the same horrible fate. I have no idea where the
> > set went. It was one of at least 75 sets that made the trip from ME to LA. One
> > the trip started nothing came out of the car. Hmmm...there was that night at my
> > in-laws house.....
>
> How's this for an almost-LOAF, and *today* of all days?
>
> Well, I live in an old Victorian house, with 1920s plumbing, and I keep my LEGO
> workshop and mail centre in the basement. Right now, as b-s-ters know, I'm boxing
> and mailing out lots of SW sets from an incredible haul last week. The boxes,
> naturally, sit on the concrete floor, in my "area."
>
> So I headed downstairs this morning to grab a few boxes for USPS and UPS, and I
> smelled something...strange. I looked over by the bikes, nothing. I looked over
> at the wine rack, nothing. Then I looked over at the workshop--sewage.
> Everywhere. And moving. AIIIEEEE! I went for the boxes INSTANTLY.
>
> Well, as luck would have it, the flooding had just started, so the boxes were OK.
> I've never moved so fast as when I was throwing those boxes OUT the cellar door and
> onto the lawn! This was no time for niceties, even though I tend to pack things in
> plastic bags inside the boxes. What's more, I had a few MISB rare sets also
> sitting on the floor, but the one that was in the "flood zone" already was
> fortuitously sitting on a plastic bag, so it was minimally wettened.
>
> More luck, I now keep all of my parts in heavy plastic bins, and I also bought two
> large tables ($25 at Office Depot, 60x30") and had sets sitting on those where they
> were on the ground just two days ago. So my total losses were one piece of carpet
> ($20), four unconstructed 18"x18"x18" boxes ($10), and my sense of smell once I was
> done bleaching the entire area ($0, I had the flu anyways). It could have been
> much worse.
>
> Time to look into insurance, I say. But at least nothing was damaged--I thought
> ahead, because we had a washing-machine flood a year ago and that same area
> flooded. Sure, they said it would never happen again, and it didn't--not from the
> washer, anyhow.
>
> Wish me luck, I just bought a new mop. :)
>
> best
>
> Lindsay
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| (...) Ah, but they were packed in nondescript cardboard boxes, most of 'em, and I was there with a steel-handled mop. I'm big and quick, too. Dodge! Turn! Parry! HA! ;) best Lindsay (27 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) How's this for an almost-LOAF, and *today* of all days? Well, I live in an old Victorian house, with 1920s plumbing, and I keep my LEGO workshop and mail centre in the basement. Right now, as b-s-ters know, I'm boxing and mailing out lots of (...) (27 years ago, 4-Mar-00, to lugnet.general)
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