Early last week as I was stocking the shelves over in the corner of Buzzy’s Country Store adjacent the Coke cooler, I brushed my head on the metal trashcan hanging from the ceiling rafter. As I did so (and note that this was not the first time that that trashcan and I have tangled as such) I thought “I should just get rid of that damn thing.”
But then I thought of how long that bad boy has been hanging there and like other similar items just hanging around in Buzzy’s, I could not bring myself to actually make it go away. That trashcan has been hanging up there for as long as I can remember.
So when Ned Pratt rolled into Buzzy’s this past Friday evening and asked if the trashcan was for sale, I had to laugh because my immediate answer was “Hell yeah. It’s yours!”
Ned told me that he was having problems with squirrels eating their way through his plastic trash cans to get to the bird seed he had stowed in the containers. “I know they won’t get thru this thing.” Tracey took this photo of Ned and me concluding the deal for the last trashcan on sale in Buzzy’s.
As for what I charged Ned, I stayed with the $12.45 that Buzzy had grease-penciled on the label many moons ago. I even trotted out the Buzzy line of “No charge for the dust” on the can. Overall, Ned got a deal. (Note that anything in Buzzy’s with his grease-pencil pricing is a deal because those prices are, how you say – very “dated.”
As for the “Dover Parkersburg University” inscription on the label, I spent more time than I should have trying to learn more about them and their operation(s.) Bottom line, as best I could tell, is that they are no longer in business. Yet, it seems that they are still showing an address in Parkersburg, West Virginia. So, I’m not too sure what their status is or ain’t.
When I first thought about doing this as a Buzzyblog Twofer Tuesday, my initial plan was to pair the above trashcan story with something about the Robert Browning poem “My Last Duchess.” I thought it would make for a fun coupling.
However, either I had forgotten, or make that probably had never learned in the first place, that My Last Duchess really was an evil little story about a dude who had his wife killed because she fooled around on him. Made me wonder how could I have not remembered any of that from those English Lit classes I took in high school and college? Blame all those drugs I guess. Here is the rest of that story:
Musically, Mick talking about trash and how his ex got rid of him even after he had given her so much including “All those SHOES!” (3:20)