Life in the Thrift Lane

August 8, 2011

Please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tom Thrift “and this is my story”. This is a dramatic entrance if you imagine it being said by a shadowy figure in a deep baritone voice and ominous sounding music in the background. If you were to actually hear me utter these words, I guarantee you that drama would not be the first place your mind would be racing. In fact the first sound wave from my lips would likely have you looking for immediate avenues of escape. Having once heard a recording of my voice I honestly have to agree that some people might find it of a tone and pitch that one associates with annoyance, as in “isn’t that tinny nasally droning sounding voice annoying?” Put this together with my rather noticeable physic (the artist’s rendering of me is remarkably accurate) and I wouldn’t want to sit and listen to what I had to say, even though the stories and experiences I have to tell are entertaining and dramatic. Okay, maybe not a lot of drama, but they are entertaining, insightful and somewhat educational, and with the wonder we call the internet you do not have to sit and listen to a distractingly odd looking man with a nasally whinny voice drone on to in order to enjoy them. In fact, when reading my blogs it would likely enhance the reading experience if the reader was to erase any images of myself that I have just planted in your head, and imagine the words being spoken by someone like Harrison Ford/Indiana Jones. Especially in those areas where you might, by some freak of nature, find your interest waning. Though to be quite honest, I can’t even imagine that happening given my riveting topic. And what is that riveting topic? In short, it is one man’s story of a lifetime spent in pursuit of good used items and valuable treasures. Or “Urban Mining and the Ongoing Search for the Mother Lode”. I hope you end up considering your time here as time well spent and look forward to chattin’ with ya’s. Now lets get on with it.