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I’m an idiot. No one has ever disputed this. I love to get attention and love to be a punk. When I was in high school, there was this sign at the stoplight right by the school. It was hand-written (think For Sale By Owner type of thing) and read:

Home for sale. 3 BR 1 BA. Please call.

That’s it. I’m still disappointed to this day that I didn’t get a picture of it. If I would have had today’s fancy technology of camera phones, digital cameras, and I Phones, I definitely could have captured it. But instead, I just had my Nokia phone that was the size of my face. It was pretty fancy for the time. But it was no help in capturing this craaaazy sign.

I had never talked to my friends about the sign, but always let out a little chuckle when I drove past it in my Chrysler Lebaron. One day, I had a group of friends in the car. We were leaving school. I pulled over to the side of the road, right in front of the sign.

I got out and yelled,

“Hello?! I’m calling about the house! I’m very interested!”

To this day, no one has responded. But I would definitely be interested. Not in the house, but in seeing who the dummies were that didn’t leave a number.

My friends thought it was hilarious in 2002. I hope you got a little chuckle out of it in 2009. Maybe it was even a knee slapper. Who knows…