I Will Now Be Going to My Happy Place

A large, used, metal gate has mysteriously appeared in my backyard. Since I don’t own a fence that this thing would fit into, or have any discernible use for something like this, some people might think this is strange.  I prefer to try and not think about it.

I do wonder though, where was this thing found? Was this picked up off the side of the road? Was somebody advertising “Free Gate” - like maybe on one of those homemade posters you sometimes see on telephone poles - the kind with a photo, where you have to rip off a little tab with a phone number on it. 

Maybe this was ripped off of someone’s fence, as payback for some perceived slight.

These are all rhetorical questions, of course. I don’t really want to know.

The only thing I really wonder is - how long before this free gate turns into a jagged hunk of rust, and how much is it going to cost me when I inevitably have to get rid of this thing?

Free gate. Note the free bikes and the free shelves behind it.