sidewalk sale!

yesterday n. a., (my across-the-hall neighbor)and i, had a sidewalk sale. i needed to clear out a ton of stuff, so did n., and a. had a few things that she wanted to get rid of as well.

we set up around 10:30, just as the fog burned off and the sun came out, starting a day with the kind of weather that makes the mission famous (at least in san francisco).

things were REALLY slow to start; we broke out the beer at about 1:00 out of desperation, and be the time we were on our second one people finally started to trickle by. (i'd forgotten that breakfast happens around noon on sundays here).

because i'm not always so smart, i didn't take taking pictures of people who came by until late in the day and so missed some real gems, but here is a selection from what i got (with aplogies to vice).

the latino mom with a couple of little kids, totally standard outfit until you got to her feet, and then, pow!







glasses guy; his shades are just the best acid/lime green you can imagine







good-hair-girl: there were a bunch of girls rockin' this type of outfit over the course of the day, but she pulled it off better than any of them. the combination of the glasses, the attitude, and the black socks was a 'very good thing^TM'.







n., a,. and terry. terry is a 54 year-old speed-freak who hung out with us for a bit. he talked so fast he was almost impossible to understand, and was very sweet, but fucking tragic. he seemd to have a pretty good sense of where he was; homeless, tweaked out of his mind, and not much going for him, but a genuinely good guy with a daughter who graduated from college this summer.







the dog: marked down from $5.00 and not feeling too hot about it.







sleeves girl: charcoal grey jeans, black t-shirt, black sleeves, the white glasses, all topped off with a german accent. she was like franka potente, but better 'cause she's real.