I spoke to daughter Emily about New Hampshire etiquette for putting things out on the roadside free for the taking.
She said that we didn't do anything wrong. If someone had really wanted something but couldn't haul it then they should have asked us to set it aside off the street.
It's there for whoever is there to take it at the time. I guess that's why the woman didn't get mad with me on the phone.
...amen.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that free things don't seem as "demanding of attention" as things that we pay for...and have run into that sense that "I said I'd come get it that day, but I had more important things to do first." You certainly made the right decision.
ReplyDeleteI think etiquette is that if the person who wants it doesn't come get it when arranged that it goes to the next person. It's that way on my local Buy Nothing website, the internet version of leaving something free by the side of the road.
ReplyDeleteNo kidding!
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