{"id":3799,"date":"2016-11-30T16:33:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=3799"},"modified":"2016-11-30T16:33:36","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T20:33:36","slug":"you-can-dresser-up-but-you-cant-take-her-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/you-can-dresser-up-but-you-cant-take-her-out\/","title":{"rendered":"You can &#8220;Dresser&#8221; up, but you can&#8217;t take her out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever just decided that you just finally had it?\u00c2\u00a0 You are sitting there, just so fed up with this shit that it&#8217;s like bile rising in your throat.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s no way you can take it any longer, you are compelled to do something about it.\u00c2\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t do something, you might even scream your head off?\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah.\u00c2\u00a0 Nikki apparently had happen\u00c2\u00a0that today.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, that&#8217;s the only explanation I can come up with, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting in the office at home, working away (in case anyone from work reads this, although the chances of that are slim based on my blog stats), when I hear something like the following from way down the hall in the living room.<\/p>\n<p>Nikki: &#8220;Yes?\u00c2\u00a0 Oh, yes, sure.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite old.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, the drawers come out.\u00c2\u00a0 It needs a little fixing, the leg is a little separated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At this point, I&#8217;m starting to clue into what is happening, and I start to listen a little more intently.<\/p>\n<p>Nikki:\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;&#8230;you can come today and have a look.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh sure, how about $50?\u00c2\u00a0 Sounds good!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 See you then.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At which point I squawked from the office:\u00c2\u00a0 IT&#8217;S STILL GOT MY CLOTHES IN IT!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Nikki sold my dresser today without really informing me that it would happen.\u00c2\u00a0 She <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/25\/nikki-goes-off-her-medication\/\">laughed pretty hard <\/a>at that point.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3800\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/you-can-dresser-up-but-you-cant-take-her-out\/dresser\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3800\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3800\" data-attachment-id=\"3800\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/30\/you-can-dresser-up-but-you-cant-take-her-out\/dresser\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dresser.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"360,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Farewell, old boy.\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dresser.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-3800 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dresser.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell, old boy.\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dresser.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/dresser-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farewell, old boy.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Aaand it&#8217;s gone.\u00c2\u00a0 Before I could type 200 words about it.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m now living out of a garbage bag, people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever just decided that you just finally had it?\u00c2\u00a0 You are sitting there, just so fed up with this shit that it&#8217;s like bile rising in your throat.\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s no way you can take it any longer, you &hellip; 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