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Title: A New Record
Post by: sofadoc on September 09, 2010, 03:29:07 pm
I stripped an old seat down today that goes in a wicker chair. I've run across many pieces over the years that have been covered over (without removing the old fabric). I started pulling the layers off. 1....2...3...4....5...6..........................11 layers!!!
The last guy who covered it actually had to use roofing nails in order to get through all the layers.
Here's some other personal records for items found in a single piece of furniture:
Most loose change: $28.32
Most batons: 5 (a drill team family)
Most remote controls: 6
Most fingernail clippers: 9
Most cell phones: 4
Most DVD's: 5
Most I-Pods: 2
Title: Re: A New Record
Post by: mike802 on September 09, 2010, 03:44:13 pm
1 old bee hive (huge)
1 bag of pot
1 old hamburger from Carols, Carols was Carols before it became Burger King, at least here.
1 used con#$%
millions of little brown worms
3 porn mag's.
1,500 dollars in small bills (customer came looking for that one)
many combs
some subway tokens

Title: Re: A New Record
Post by: Darren Henry on September 09, 2010, 05:49:00 pm
Was the customer with the bag of weed the same one as the envelope of small bills ? LOL

My old boss claims to have once found a tennis racket in a sofa. I guess if 5 batons fit; it could happen.
Title: Re: A New Record
Post by: gene on September 09, 2010, 06:19:40 pm
3 pneumatic dental drills.

Potato chips, a bunch of them, between the old fabric and the new fabric.

1 staple puller that I use almost every day.

Around 50 small rocks, the ones that are smooth.

Around 25 beer bottle caps from a chair that was used at a bible college by the son of a family that is very religious and in conversation the mom mentioned how happy she was that her son went to a college where there was no drinking. I never told her about the bottle caps.

Gene
Title: Re: A New Record
Post by: mike802 on September 09, 2010, 07:55:04 pm
QuoteWas the customer with the bag of weed the same one as the envelope of small bills ? LOL


LOL Boy Darren you gave me thoughts of changing carriers there for a moment :D  Actually the two were years apart.  But the potato chips between fabric layers reminded me of a banana peel I found between layers :o