Cheap TatOneEyedMonster remindes us about the crap you can buy in pound shops: "Batteries that lasted about an hour and then died. A screwdriver with a loose handle so I couldn't turn the damn screw, and a tape measure which wasn't at all accurate."
Similarly, my neighbour bought a lawnmower from Argos that was so cheap the wheels didn't go round, it sort of skidded over the grass whilst gently back-combing it.
What's the cheapest, most useless crap you've bought?
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chthonic, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 7:26)
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Oh, all right thenWell, as she approached her latter years she started getting a bit.. odd. Obsessed with computer crime, that hackers would steal all her money, that kind of thing. Then out of the blue, her white knight, comes a crooner. He woos her with soft words, love notes and so on. And he persuades her that she should leave her money to a good cause, not her scrounging family. And what better cause than the Boy's Club that he happens to run? So when she finally pops her clogs, with the National Gallery and Tate and all the rest of them hanging around her like vultures hoping for a Modigliani or two, the whole lot went to Frankie.
No idea what happened after that, but there you go. In fairness, my brother and I got a fair bit of money off her in trust funds before she went weird and I managed to live off it for six months to write a book, so I feel pretty kindly towards her :) But I think my dad was gutted...
[Edit: Now I think about it, I like the image of vultures hanging round in the hope of an example of early 20th Century avant garde art]
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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Fri 4 Jan 2008, 12:31,
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