G-Sale

Our new-ish across-the-street neighbor just had a 20 minute garage sale. He set up one table and one rack of clothes. It was pretty sad-looking. Then he stood behind his table wearing very shiny blue track pants and waited for customers. I only saw one guy stop by. Now there is a big storm a'brewin' and he's taking his stuff back inside. I bet he didn't make one dollar. I was going to use his garage sale as an opportunity to go say hello and introduce myself, but our shiny-pantsed neighbor was on his cell phone the whole time. Or was he? Maybe he was pretending to be on his phone to look like he has friends, or to keep his neighbors from coming over to chat. I read an article about that. Something like 75% of people with cell phones have pretended to be on them at some point to either look busy or important. I wonder if the annoying lady at Central Market was pretending to talk on her cell phone this morning over by the ears of corn. She was talking very loudly about people with "sophisticated palates." Gimme a break. It's just corn.