Anyone else pull off the road

Are you my cousin?

I got a nice 8 foot ladder one day.

Found more than a few useful things.

What I see most often are tumbleweaves. I've been taking pictures of them to compile one day into a David Attenborough style thread.

Into the Urban Jungle: The Curious Tale of the Tumbleweave

Picked up 4 buckets and an aluminum canoe paddle this afternoon. All within a couple miles of my house.

Life vests, bags full of decoys, ladders. Wait that's stuff I've lost.

I picked up a hitchhiker once, and a dead possum, but not at the same time. Some people call them opossums, but I call them possums. I call armadillos armored possums, but I’ve never stopped to pick one up.

In Houston I found a good heavy metal shears that we used ten years later.
More recently twenty ten gallon plant pots were scattered along the US hwy, not heavy traffic. (The size that big transplant trees grow in.) Got 'em all.

Years ago the chairman of the board of one of our local banks was an old guy who never married and lived at his camp out on the lake. All he did was fish, hunt, and make money. Somebody saw him on the side of the road picking up cans one time and said, "you're the richest man in town, why are you picking up cans>" He replied, "that's why I'm rich and you're not."

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A good 5 gal bucket is a good 5 gal bucket. If this board doesn’t understand that, frick em. They are too soft to understand the big picture.

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On the rare occasion I can get a food grade bucket, it's an even better score. Can be use to store drinking water, food, and everything else.

Found a large tackle box full of spinner baits once off the side of the road. Good times.

Saw a suitcase once and stopped to pick it up. Was worth my trouble. That's all I can say about it.