Thread Bare (Threadbare) (Rug) Care (Dare)
Part One
I
suppose that it is okay for I to return to ‘something I wrote’ and fuss with
it. I suppose. If I didn’t write it then that (fussing
with it) could be a different and difficult matter. I suppose. But
I do not have ‘that issue’.
No. I wrote it (upon this
subject) and it still stands and still seems to be a ‘popular read’. I am spoken to of it and the ‘this’
(still popular read). That is a
measure of success isn’t it?
No. Especially if the readers are goofy
about it. What could be goofy
about reading about pets peeing on domestic (WASP) floor coverings? The smirk and the ‘get that off of your
face’.
In
the story chapter (blog post) “John Henry – Part Three” I tirade as an aside
from the main tale about ‘old’ ‘threadbare’ ‘oriental’ ‘rugs’ on the old floors
of old New England Wasp estates. I
go on for quite a bit and, having just reread the whole aside, I am pleased to
report that I find it ‘stands’.
‘Well’. Still. Pet pee... and thee... on thy
Rugs.
I
had to go back and look at it for I was, again, watching (from my comfortable
position as a dealer in the antiques trade) the fumbling and affected fussing
of ... Wasp threadbare rug shopping shoppers and their
“That”
(The
fumbling and the affected fussing).
Look: If the shopping
shoppers knew what they ‘are doing’... the fussing would not be affected. As they do not ‘know’ and are also
‘doing’... it sidesteps into affected.
That’s not very pleasant is it... especially when it includes a goofy
smirk and the...
Lack
of any sense that a someone who does know (“no”) something is watching this
live drama for their own entertainment.
That’s
right and it IS worth the very nominal ‘price’ to ‘see the show’.
They
do not want to be spoken with. So
I don’t. Ever. No... they do not want to hear the
words ‘sniff test’*** and... should they
hear that from ME they... will mention it to me ever after (decades, over and
over). Is the conflict of the
discovery that the rugs DO smell ‘that way’ (pet pee) and that ...that... IS a
‘supposed to be THAT’ IF they are the real Wasp threadbare... on your
floor. “I missed that.” you say?
*** “The
Sniff Test” is a quick sniff given by a potential buyer to “see” if the item
“smells”; “Does it pass the sniff test?”.
The sniff test is given to a real lot of ‘things’ I find in ‘estates’...
for obvious reasons. Old
threadbare dirty pet peed on “scatter” rugs “is a no brainer” for a sniff
test. If it is ‘really bad’
(smelling) it is “yellow”; dealer slang for ‘makes your eyes water’: “It’s a good rug but nasty yellow”.
So
then it gets a little more frustrated.
Doesn’t it. YOU were just
trying to “LOOK” at “THE RUG” and... that’s why you were fussing with it;
rolling it out after pulling it out of a ...pile... of piles of old rugs
that... “WHY THAT ONE SWEETHEART IS IT THE PATTERN/COLORS?” No.
“IT’S
THE RIGHT SIZE”
“I
THINK”.
Shopping
(old threadbare rug) shoppers who don’t know (‘old’ “oriental” ‘rugs’)
shouldn’t ‘think’ when they are ‘at that’. A words of advice.
It (think) is like looking over the shoulder at the back side... of your
‘back there’... in the mirror... with this being done by an “Am I being
watched?’
Already
we have quite a snarl... haven’t we.
And it is supposed to be so EASY.
Just find the ratty old rugs at estate sales and BUY THEM and ‘put them
down’ and “What’s that smell dear?” and “IT’S SUPPOSED TO SMELL LIKE THAT” and:
It
turns out it is ‘not an old one’ whatever that means and ‘isn’t THAT worn’
because “I’m not really gonna put that on MY floor” anyway and ANYWAY the ONE
RUG (at the sale) that DID look like that “SOME MAN” rolled right up and BOUGHT
IT before I could even LOOK AT IT.
“I see that MAN at the sales all the time but I’ve never spoken with
him”.
Okay
so what is all that about? Well...
if they are... old estate rugs that are truly old estate rugs then there ‘could
be’ ‘a good one’ the ‘this MAN’ says and he’s there to get it (them) he says
too. So I want him to ‘tell me about
that’; “INFORM ME” and thought he understood that I wanted to see the rug he
bought and rolled right up but he paid for it and only said it was worn and
dirty and ‘needed to be cleaned’.
I think. The one I bought
wasn’t too worn and is the right size.
I think. But he (the man)
was right that the colors are what I’d call ‘too bright’ and HE called “garish”
and something about ‘natural dyes’.
What
does he look for? “Old rugs
natural dyes 1880’s Victorian bold geometric”. Something like that he said. He just laughed when I said the WEAR on it (the rug he
bought) SEEMED” but he still wouldn’t let me look at it (his rug) and said
“They didn’t use it to cover the pool table” whatever that means. I didn’t see the pool table.
I
saw him. The rug was on the
floor. He just turned it over and
rolled it up. Everyone was walking
all around him. One woman; a
dealer, said “Wendell; I didn’t see that.
You have such a good eye.”
Whatever
that means.
What
this all means is that more and more “I think” Wasp threadbare rug wanting yard
sale-tag sale-flea market hunting white SUV driving parking problems “I should
have worn my boots it’s cold in here” “I”M LOOKING FOR ORIENTAL RUGS DO YOU
HAVE ANY?” are ‘there’ ‘now’ ‘these days’. Like... a LOT of ‘more and more’. So my business is fine
With
all of this.
I
sell the rugs. After I buy the
rugs. I don’t have to ‘very much’
for most of the rugs because most of the rugs are not only not worth very much
but are a ‘lot of them around’ ‘for sale’ too. What rugs are those?
Old rugs from after World War Two; 1950’s-60’s. Old rugs from after World War One;
1920’s – ‘30’s. Even the
‘Edwardian’ ‘era’ (1890-1915) (“Dee-Abby”) old rugs. “All you have to do is look at the DYES”. And, if the bother is needed, ‘the
pattern’. I don’t really much
‘needed’ these days. There are a
lot around for sale. I just
‘cheap’ on those. And even then I
get a lot. What happens to
them? They go to the flea market
old rug vender. His business is
firecracker hot these days. It;
the Wasp Threadbare Fashion Forward ‘thing’; the right place at the right time
with the right “old” “worn” “threadbare” “RUGS”. A ‘constantly keep in supply’. How did you think those rugs got there? Santa Claus brings them? No.
I
do. And they sell just that way
for just that kind of money. We do
not push the market. It is ‘just
there’... just like the old Wasp threadbare rugs are suppose to be. Sniff test? Better... but... one does not need to ‘touch’ many
rugs. No. The ‘good eye’ will take a whole pile
or two of old rugs and reduce it to ‘tag’ (see how much they want for it –
“that one”) one rug. It is always
‘too much’ too. It has ‘already
been found’. I find rugs; old
rugs. So I know about this
(already found).
Then
I sell them. Even the “that one”
I
do not sell them to the rug shoppers shopping. The rug vender at the flea markets do that. I sell my ‘those rugs’ to him (her).
The
really old really worn threadbare rugs of natural dyes and bold geometric
patterns from the Victorian 1880’s ...and older... I have here and there in another universe in another galaxy;
a galaxy of old threadbare rugs in an old threadbare rug universe. No one ever talks about this. It is all: A glance at ‘a’ or ‘the’ or ‘those’ rugs is it. On the floor one of ...those... is...
not an accident... or a “What?”.
No. They know. YOU know. It is assumed.
That (know). For me it
means, too, ‘great rug’ ‘not for sale’.
I know all about that for I live with it; my wife layers rugs without an
ever mention ever. I
understand: It as a Wasp ‘knows
good rugs’ threadbare rug domestic ...style. Reread that; I just told you something. The house isn’t that big and the we
keep finding the rugs and she keeps taking them off and layering them around
and always says “NO ONE IS GOING TO PAY ANYTHING FOR” anyone of those rugs
anyway (although that market is actually very... very sharp) so who cares and I
also know better than to ‘mess with’ ‘a duck to water’ (an “I know” Wasp wife
with rugs). Yes the threadbare rug
thing... in the realm of ‘good ones’ is a ‘don’t mess with’ style... standard.
Is
this a little scary? Threadbare...
“I care” has a “do I dare” a ‘THAT threadbare’? Absolutely. A
threadbare Wasp home of ‘good ones’... takes a breath away. “You’ve seen their rugs?” How can you tell if you don’t
know? You can’t but the rugs that
are that good will try as hard as they can to wrestle your eye and then knock
some
Good
taste into that eye
Too.
I’d
like to say ‘you’ll know it’ but... that’s not true. Most people ‘don’t’
Know.
“Their
rugs.
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