Free to a good home

Categories: freecycling

Date: 22 June 2008 18:39:59

Having recently joined both the Barnet and Haringey groups of that interesting social innovation, Freecycle, I'm finding the listings a source of frequent innocent amusement. Yesterday, for instance, someone was offering a 'CD and ape deck' which presumably was available for monkeying around with. It's not just the typos though - today I find that I am being offered '2 posh soaps and unrelated pickles'. This has set me musing: in what way exactly might posh soaps be related to pickles? Or is it that the pickles are unrelated to each other, or even unrelated to their previous owner? I imagine him/her introducing them: 'This is my Aunt Gherkin, and Uncle Onion - the other pickles are no relation at all'. I really ought to respond to this offer just to find out what unrelated pickles are.