{"id":4773,"date":"2006-07-04T02:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2006-07-04T02:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T02:44:00","slug":"our-trip-to-the-salvation-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icalltheshot.com\/?p=4773","title":{"rendered":"Our Trip To The Salvation Army&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_15jEUMtexcE\/R5vQlMOGw7I\/AAAAAAAAAzE\/ehqpOiaUuQE\/s1600-h\/SalvationArmy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_15jEUMtexcE\/R5vQlMOGw7I\/AAAAAAAAAzE\/ehqpOiaUuQE\/s400\/SalvationArmy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159947135437161394\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'\">Our garage space is looking brighter by the minute as we have been on our mission organization kick for quite some time.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Bobby filled the truck with miscellaneous bits and pieces that we no longer want.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>One being that golf club set with the nice golf bag that he has not used in quite some time.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>It\u2019s freeing to eliminate the things that once cluttered our lives.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Everything needs a place to call home.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Comic Sans MS'\">We decided to donate to The Salvation Army this time.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>It was amazing to see their trucks backed up to the docks unloading unwanted things from people just like us.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>The place was buzzing with workers, trucks and forklifts moving large objects from one place to the next.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>I couldn\u2019t help but notice this enormous copy machine which must have had at least 25 sorting slots.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>I watched them pick up the copier and I wondered where that copier had been.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>I also wondered where it would go after this and who would buy it.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>As I was thinking about this they were moving it with the forklift and taking it to its new home\u2026<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>THE DUMP!<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>I watched him transfer that machine to the huge and I mean \u201cHUGE\u201d (at least 9\u2019 tall x 18\u2019 long) dumpster in the back.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Up he pulled up to the dumpster lifting that machine up to the clearance then tilting the forks and dropped the machine.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>The machine plunged into that dumpster with a loud thunder and by all indications, I\u2019m pretty sure it will never copy another piece of paper ever again.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>When taking another look I noticed not just one but two huge dumpsters over there.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>Apparently other people donate their junk to Salvation Army.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">  <\/span>I wonder how much of our stuff went in the dumpster too?<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our garage space is looking brighter by the minute as we have been on our mission organization kick for quite some time. 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