Puerile Humour

Today is a holy day for all scavengers! Its Easter Monday. On this day, people go into there lofts and cupboards and find on rubbish. They take it down to the local dump and leave it there. Forgetting all about it. Then, along come scavengers and buy it from the dump. One mans rubbish is another mans jewel.

So I headed down to the local dump to see what things people had thrown out. As I stepped out the car I found something really nice. A ZX 81. A computer from the 1980’s. Ok, so it won’t run Vista, but it will sure as hell be a nice thing to look at and take apart. It just makes me happy to find something small like that.

So my dad was dropping off some stones, he came back and said “Did you see that laptop?”. No! “Oh, its over here.”. He walked me over and there was a laptop. It was even turned on, smiling with Windows ME. I checked it over. A HP OmniBook XE3. It’s battery worked, It’s keyboard worked, even its Mic Port works. I grabbed it and went to pay.

Grand total for both of them? £9.50! Thats all. Its amazing what some people throw out.