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Ok, I posted this ad at 1:29PM on Friday in the free section of craigslist:

Free: any or all of: CD rack, bookshelves, endtable, and a “desk”
Date: 2006-09-01, 1:29PM PDT

Moving time! I’m moving from a condo to a hopefully very small, shitty, and cheap apartment. So, I need to get rid of some stuff – any or all of it is yours provided you can haul it away.

First off, we have a high-capacity CD rack – it’s not beautiful but it’s functional. Holds 550 CDs, if I recall correctly, but the shelves are adjustable so you can fit your huge porn movie collection in there as well. No, it doesn’t come with the bo staff. I need that to fight off the ninjas that’ll be surrounding my small, shitty apartment.

Next off, a nice little endtable with a chess board stenciled on top. I didn’t put it there, and it’s a little sloppily done, but hey, who doesn’t like ghetto-chess? I know I do. Sadly, I have to let it go. It’s got wrought-iron legs and two small drawers on each side – perfect for chess pieces or remote controls. No, the printer underneath doesn’t come with this.

Following the end table is a set of unfinished bookshelves. They’re just begging for a nice paint job to match your place. Take one, take both, it’s your call. In the pic, there’s only one, but you can just barely see his brother hanging out next to him. If you want the coke bottle full of ball bearings in the upper left side of the pic, we can negotiate about that, but the bookshelves? They’re free.

Finally, we have my “desk.” It’s really more of a desk in spirit than in design, but it’s served me wonderfully over the years. The top is made from high-density particle wood – it’ll never bend or break – and it’s got a circle cut out in the back to drop miscellaneous cables. Alright, you got me, it’s just a door. But not one of those flimsy hollow doors, this is an industrial strength door. This is manly door. Oh, and it’s support by two file cabinets. Those are free also. Things pictured that are not free: my laptop (I know what you’re thinking, what good is a laptop without a desk? I agree, but I’ve got sentimental attachment to my laptop), the mess of cables, and miscellaneous papers. The beer bottle is free, though – all you have to do is pick it up. (Which should be even easier now, since I think it’s currently empty.)

I’ll be around this labor day weekend, hit me up!

I got a few responses. Very quickly, judging by my maillog at:

• 1:35:24
• 1:47:10
• 1:51:09
• 1:51:18
• 1:53:15
• 2:01:16
• 2:04:02
• 2:05:19
• 2:06:46
• 2:10:50
• 2:18:15
• 2:20:18
• 2:24:40
• 2:25:12
• 2:27:49
• 2:29:28

At this point I updated the ad to say “just send email an email and I’ll put you in line.” I thought it’d stem the flow. And it did a bit, but I still received more queries at:

• 2:43:42
• 2:47:44
• 2:52:16
• 3:06:36
• 3:40:37
• 4:05:14
• 4:07:09

Crazy.

Oh, and I also got two compliments on the add, one saying I should go into advertising. Never thought of that.