The Smith Story

We had a garage sale in the beginning of May. We did it to help pay for our California Drive – it did. We asked 4 of our friends to join up with us and we had a huge sale with a really good turn out.

We pulled everything out the night before and Pete and I decided to
just spend the night outside with it all, much easier than trying to
put it back into the garage, it wouldn’t have fit anyway, and then pull
it all out again, plus, it is fun to sleep outside.

If you are LOST fans like me and Adriane then you will appreciate
this. At 6:26am I was sound asleep. You know how
Jack and the other characters will wake up suddenly and dramatically
with the viewer seeing nothing but their eye, focus in on my eye. At 6:27am I woke up quickly, took in a quick deep breathe and turned my head to see this Asian lady standing perfectly still and staring at me from about
10 feet away – freaky. I really thought to myself “is she real?” “what
does she want to tell me?” “when will I get off this island?” Later I found out, after Pete and I scared her, that she didn’t see me at all even though it seemed like she did. Strange. She was a professional garage sale shopper, we kept telling her we were not open yet but she kept saying it was ok, she would just box up what she wanted and then ask the price. So, reluctantly we got up and started selling, there was a constant flow starting withthe Asian lady all the way until 4pm later that day. It took me several days to recover from a night of poor sleep, the Lost episode and a day of constant garage selling.

We are up for doing it again next year – our vision is to get our whole street to do a Fremont Drive Garage Sale and it will become a tradition in our neighborhood.