You know the Island is to small when...

As everyone did after the hurricane, Diane and I were cruising around the island to witness the wrath of Wilma. Besides the damage from mother nature, the mess that lie before us from residents throwing all their personal belongings out on their front lawn, which latter became a treasure chest for us dumper divers was amazing. During one of our sweeps of the island on our scooter we passed a simply gorgeous wicker living room set. Diane pointed it out to me and said, "that set would look great at the coffee shop." Diane had seen the set before. When we were looking for a house to rent to move down from Sugarloaf , Diane had looked at the house for rent which the set came from. I decided to go get our van and pick it up. As often in Key West If you don't grab thing right then, a quicker dumpster diver will score it....... Oh well. I went back to tell Diane the news knowing she would be disappointed sensing how much she liked this set. Oh well it wasn't ment to be.

This morning at the coffee shop Diane was talking to Katie who comes in every morning for her latte. Diane was mentioning now that she has a car (jeep Cherokee) she plans on hitting some garage sales this weekend. We always need wicker furniture for the coffee shop she explained to Katie. Katie replies " you should talk to Supergirl (another Coffee Plantation Fan) we collected lots of furniture when everyone was throwing stuff away durning the storms." So Diane did and I was instructed to meet Supergirl at her house to look at the furniture. When I got there and saw it was in good condition I offered to buy it from her. She wouldn't take any money for it. She explained Katie found it durning Wilma and they would be happy to pass it on to us especially since it was for their favorite coffee shop. The best part is while talking to Supergirl, I figure out this is the same silly set we saw on Whitehead st. the day I rushed to get the van and returned with an" empty one" to tell Diane the sad news, The couch she loved was already taken by a quicker dumpster diver then I. ( It was Katie all along who was the quicker dumpster and had OUR couch for the past six months)
Needless to say a really great laugh has been had by all of us. It's been the talk of the coffee shop all morning.
O.K. O.K. not much happens here so this is really a funny story. I said it is a small island... Now the hunt is on for cushions because you can image after four feet of water which flooded that house the cushions were no longer.....