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(Insider)   Woman buys couch from thrift shop, takes it home and accidentally drops her cell phone between the couch cushions. What's something good that could come out of this?   (insider.com) divider line
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2019-10-17 6:29:55 PM  
Someone came to fix her cable?
 
2019-10-17 9:33:53 PM  
Drugs?
 
fusillade762  
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2019-10-17 9:34:05 PM  
but instead of her phone, she pulled out a watch.

Lamest. Transformer. EVAR.
 
TheCableGuy  
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2019-10-17 9:34:07 PM  
She got the time of her life?
 
aerojockey [TotalFark]  
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2019-10-17 9:34:37 PM  
I still would never wear a wristwatch, even if it was this one.
/sounds millenial
//close but no
 
squidloe  
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2019-10-17 9:35:02 PM  
Was it an Irish wristwatch?
 
cakeman [TotalFark]  
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2019-10-17 9:35:20 PM  
I wonder if it was ever entrusted to Christopher Walken.
 
2019-10-17 9:37:14 PM  
"But shiat, it was 99 cents!"
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2019-10-17 9:39:17 PM  
Finders-keepers vibrator?
 
2019-10-17 9:39:39 PM  
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MiamiChef  
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2019-10-17 9:40:42 PM  
She is going to get a boob job with the money.
 
SBinRR [OhFark]  
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2019-10-17 9:43:38 PM  
She finds out it is actually a sleeper sofa?
 
labman [TotalFark]  
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2019-10-17 9:46:01 PM  

MiamiChef: She is going to get a boob job with the money.


Clearly the best result from this. Paying off the house is so boring.
 
Marksrevenge  
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2019-10-17 9:59:53 PM  
You're about ten thousand times more likely to get bedbugs than a Rolex if you bring used furniture into your home.
 
2019-10-17 10:00:40 PM  
Weed or cash, but most likely just an old condom

/dnrtfa

 
2019-10-17 10:07:03 PM  

Marksrevenge: You're about ten thousand times more likely to get bedbugs than a Rolex if you bring used furniture into your home.


If it came from a fancy house, Rolex bedbugs.
 
2019-10-17 10:12:39 PM  
These people found $40K in their thrift store couch... and returned the money

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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/05/16/313118337/thrift-store-couch-yields-40-000-roommates-return-money
 
vudukungfu [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-10-17 10:16:41 PM  
Tldr:
e, the woman replied that she would "buy a house and get a boob job."
 
2019-10-17 10:18:36 PM  

Optimal_Illusion: Marksrevenge: You're about ten thousand times more likely to get bedbugs than a Rolex if you bring used furniture into your home.

If it came from a fancy house, Rolex bedbugs.


So bedbugs that are overvalued and judge you. Awful.
 
Demetrius [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-10-17 10:28:46 PM  
Talk about burying the lede...

When asked what she would do with her newfound fortune, the woman replied that she would "buy a house and get a boob job."

Priorities, people. Priorities.
 
Zizzowop [recently expired TotalFark]  
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2019-10-17 10:35:57 PM  
Could have been worse, that could have been a 'casting couch' -hopefully the new owners don't have a black light.
 
2019-10-17 10:48:17 PM  
I once got a secondhand couch, and found a used vape pen between the cushions.
 
Harlee [TotalFark] [OhFark]  
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2019-10-17 10:50:22 PM  
I have never understood the allure of wearing something that might get your arm chopped off by a machete-wielding snatch-and-grab artist.

It's a watch. It tells time. So does a $25 Timex or an $8 Chinese toss-when-the-battery-dies Walmart special.
 
Shryke  
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2019-10-17 10:56:46 PM  

Harlee: I have never understood the allure of wearing something that might get your arm chopped off by a machete-wielding snatch-and-grab artist.

It's a watch. It tells time. So does a $25 Timex or an $8 Chinese toss-when-the-battery-dies Walmart special.


Jesus, man. You're splashing poor all over the bloody rug.
 
Mock26  
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2019-10-17 11:24:54 PM  
"Turns out the conjuring couch was purchased for a whopping $25 at a thrift store four years before the Daytona discovery."

Who in their right mind buys a used couch without giving it a thorough once over and then not once in four years cleans it or looks between the cushions? Yeah, right.
 
Russ1642  
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2019-10-17 11:26:39 PM  
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HFK  
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2019-10-17 11:28:09 PM  

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There is no way I am sitting or even touching that couch.
 
2019-10-17 11:41:25 PM  
she probably put it there and reverse trojan horsed the watch out of the building. . . biggest thing you will find in these couches here is a dime, if you lose a quarter here the couch will eat it and spit you back a nickel or penny if youre lucky ...
 
Catlenfell  
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2019-10-17 11:51:15 PM  
She's only anonymous, because she doesn't want to pay taxes.
 
2019-10-17 11:51:51 PM  
The photo was pretty helpful. Now I know what the watch didn't look like.
 
WTFDYW [TotalFark]  
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2019-10-17 11:54:30 PM  

GungFu: I hope someone claims it back and she has a small reward just to cover the cost of her desired boob job.
Aren't Rolex watches easy to pin down as to where it was bought and by whom etc? Due to the recent Paul Newman sale, I read its records are very meticulous, and anyone with the right documents will be able to claim that watch.

It just seems going back to the thrift shop and asking questions and thinking she's good to go after 4 years doesn't seem 'safe' to me. I would have at least waited a few more years andbe  happy with being small chested.


But then maybe she jested  about being  small chested.
 
2019-10-18 12:07:06 AM  

Harlee: I have never understood the allure of wearing something that might get your arm chopped off by a machete-wielding snatch-and-grab artist.

It's a watch. It tells time. So does a $25 Timex or an $8 Chinese toss-when-the-battery-dies Walmart special.


that watch won't get worn.  It will live on a winder and only see daylight when the new Chinese owner brings his buddies over so he can show it off.

<sold a similar Rolex to a Chinese dude for what I thought was stupid money at the time.  Now worth 10X the price>
 
Dear Jerk  
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2019-10-18 12:07:16 AM  
That's one way to launder a Rolex.
 
2019-10-18 1:14:59 AM  

coffeeburns: The photo was pretty helpful. Now I know what the watch didn't look like.


That's not the actual watch?
Because the one in the picture is a beautiful piece.
 
2019-10-18 1:36:47 AM  

Harlee: I have never understood the allure of wearing something that might get your arm chopped off by a machete-wielding snatch-and-grab artist.

It's a watch. It tells time. So does a $25 Timex or an $8 Chinese toss-when-the-battery-dies Walmart special.


1) depends on where you wear it and what circumstances
2) if we go by utility only, then why buy a nice car when any modern used jalopy will get a person from a to b. Why buy a large house with a yard when you can fit everything in an apartment and go to the park. Why buy new (colorful) well-fitting clothes to keep you warm, when you can bland, used sweaters from goodwill?
And since we're already down that road, why wear any jewelry/accessories, real or otherwise? Why have different hairstyles when you can just comb it back into a ponytail?

Human behavior is driven by many things, including pleasure and social impact/interactions.

/having recently visited west africa, I can definitely say that changing people's lives for the better can definitely give pleasure
//perspective as well
///my impact was mostly indirect
 
Dryad  
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2019-10-18 1:43:11 AM  
Rolex won't tell you crap. They may or may not have records, but you will only get hold of them -IF- you qualify for a very exclusive special program where you get to pay well into five figures for them to go over it for you, and only then do you discover -if- there are records.
That is actually an -improvement-, they are historically very actively hostile toward the repair or even recognition of any watch not a current model. You buy a new model watch or get out. Vintage (Used) is for poors.

There is a closet industry in third party people who repair and restore vintage Rolexes, but they keep a low profile as Rolex will blackball them if they are discovered, even for repairing watches they themselves refuse to repair.

/Rolex are assholes.
 
2019-10-18 5:50:07 AM  

cyberspacedout: I once got a secondhand couch, and found a used vape pen between the cushions.


Then they would find they also got a Jackson Pollack painting.

/win/win/win
 
dryknife  
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2019-10-18 6:56:22 AM  
It would have been worth millions if it was Newman's Own©.
 
xebec  
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2019-10-18 7:02:41 AM  

MiamiChef: She is going to get a boob job with the money.

And

a house.  Two excellent investments.
 
Coelacanth  
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2019-10-18 8:23:20 AM  
I was hoping for kittens.
 
Electromax  
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2019-10-18 9:17:14 AM  

Harlee: I have never understood the allure of wearing something that might get your arm chopped off by a machete-wielding snatch-and-grab artist.

It's a watch. It tells time. So does a $25 Timex or an $8 Chinese toss-when-the-battery-dies Walmart special.


If you have a watch that expensive, you can easily afford some Plate Vambraces that are resistant to most  nonmagical edged weapons.
 
Salmon  
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2019-10-18 10:50:53 AM  

Vlad_the_Inaner: These people found $40K in their thrift store couch... and returned the money

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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/05/16/313118337/thrift-store-couch-yields-40-000-roommates-return-money


yeah, but he's banging two young hotties so he wins anyway.
 
kona [TotalFark]  
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2019-10-18 11:34:43 AM  
i don't like watches.
also, this story reads like a well written fake story about BOBS.
 
portnoyd  
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2019-10-18 12:45:33 PM  
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Poster1212  
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2019-10-18 1:01:01 PM  
I found $300 in a book I bought at a thrift shop before I purchased it. When I returned 2 months later, I noticed the cashiers were flipping the pages on the next book I purchased. Too late!
 
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