Lesson learned. Although, it’s a lesson I should have already known really.
If you don’t have a way to get it home, don’t buy it. Especially when you’re trying to get a deal. Renting a truck or paying for delivery would defeat the entire score.
Silly me to think that someone else would outbid my $100 for a large octagon-shaped wood table and chairs at a recent auction. Silly.
Andrew would likely use a different word to describe my action but he’s known me for some years now so there are things he’s used to – like how to react when I text him that I spent money on something that we don’t need and I can’t drive it home in my car – or his. He texts back, “Ok. Now what? We don’t have a truck.”
My response: “I know this.”
He can tell I’m now both stressed about my reckless purchase and unhappy with his response to my buyer’s remorse.
“We can strap it to the roof?”
“Yes.”
“Take a picture so I can see what I’m dealing with.”
Minutes later, he calls me and tells me he has a master plan.
Minutes after that, he pulls up to the auction in our neighbor’s pickup truck. (Rescued by dear friends!)
I can tell he doesn’t love (or even like) the table but he is a good friend and comedian and pokes fun at me by saying things like, “I had to be the guy who borrows his neighbor’s truck.” And something about “putting the cart before the horse.”
Now that it’s in our house, I’m not even sure I love it but it did help that after a few hours of it in its new spot, Andrew told me he thinks it’s a nice addition. (Even after all the jokes.)
Sold! – to the person who can’t get it home!
I have high hopes of refinishing it and then having it for a game/puzzle table. Eventually, when the next age group of “toys” replace the ones that live in our family room now, we will have a bar and finally hang my stained glass poker-table light that I’ve had for years to spice it up some.
In the meantime, I’m thinking we need to invest in a truck. I wonder if any are being auctioned …
Are You Zhazha? 
Say what?