Candorville by Darrin Bell for May 25, 2022

Clyde doesn’t have a garage.

Must be a parallel reality

I still like paper products when they are available. I have 2021 road atlas but it is half size. Prayers and good thoughts for Uvalde and other places where people are shot indiscrimately! No guns are allowed at the NRA convention in Houston.

The trick is to get people bidding against each other.

I still use my set of encyclopedias. They’ve got information I can’t find on the internet.

I grew up with relatives who bought stuff at garage sales and flea markets. They abhorred buying anything that wasn’t a “bargain.” Often what they bought was junk, defective, or in the case of cleaning products or anything that could be opened — diluted or modified. Flea markets were the worst, in my opinion — for some sellers there, it was a cutthroat game to cheat people. As a result, I avoid buying anything used, except books. (This is not to disparage honest people.)

I like yard sales in “affluent” neighborhoods, and a 20-lb. Dictionary lives by my PC. La vita e bella!

Clyde knows his market.

..And the antiques dealer who unknowingly bought a first century BC roman bust for $34.99 in a Texas Goodwill..https://news.yahoo.com/woman-buys-2-000-old-164916284.html

He’s pretty strong to carry a ton of books around in his trench coat.

I love this one

“Got a slide rule or a typewriter ribbon?”

People Will pay more for it if they think it’s Stolen.