A bloody maroon velvet sofa jackpot

Sometime early last week, HF and I talked about getting a sofa and budgetted about 50 quids top. Allders Store, which is currently going through liquidation and hence a change in management, is having its last days of sale of up to 85% is a good place to check out for such furnitures. She checked out and found a one seater sofa that has been reduced from GBP389.00 to GBP50.00 and home delivery only. Good deal but that's not what we're looking for. A two seater one would probably cost double that amount which would have shot past the ceiling of our budget.

We didn't talk about it since.

Last night, while we're on our way to a nearby grocery store (Somerfields) on Shaw Lane, we spotted a 3 seater and 2 seater couches placed around a pile up of garbage bags. It didn't take too long for common sense to walk into our minds interpreting to us that those couches are unwanted. There were people about that house and it seems like they were the ones who put (or should I say dumped) those beautiful wooden couches out there. When asked, one elderly man replied that they were moving house and these, he pointed to the couches and the garbage bags, are the things he's not taking with.

HF and I looked at each other and then looked back at the elderly man and,
"Can we take them home?", we simultaneously asked him. It was funny that we had the same thoughts at the moment.

He utterly agreed by expressing a loud and affirming "sure!"

I felt embarrassed and offered to pay him a few quids for it to reassure.

"Don't bother with that, love" he replied.

HF and I pushed the bloody still wet two seater maroon velvet sofa all the way to home, about 600m and up slope. Tireness and hefty pantings did not stop us at all as we were pushing while feeling a mixture of happiness and humors and laughters. We have truly found what we were looking for--our treasure.

Finally when we've put it in the room, rearranged some of the existing furnitures to accomodate the sofa, dried and cleaned it, etc. we just fell back or rather drop dead on the sofa totally satisfied. Still looking at each other, we laughed about it.