Ever had to hide the same body twice?

About 25 years ago when I was building an oversized back door stair landing I was gathering my materiels. A few days before I commenced the actual construction I happened by a garage sale and saw a leftover Halloween sleleton for five bucks. 

What do you do when you see a skeleton for five bucks? That's a keeper! You buy it.

Now that you have a skeleton what do you do with it? In a flash of inspiration I knew just what to do with it.

You half-bury it under the wood landing you are getting ready to build so the next owner tears it out and discovers it and $hits himself.

With any luck the new owner calls the police and they remove it and take it to the Allegheny County forensics lab where a highly trained scientist takes a DNA sample and sends it off the day before the newbie on the team finds 'Made in Taiwan' on the base of the skull.

It gave me great joy walking on the landing looking forward to the day I would get a good laugh from my grave.

Luck was not with me because they changed the recipe on pressure treated lumber and the landing rotted out too early. The other day I had to tear the landing out. I opted not to replace it. The new landing would simply be grass.  

Needless to say, I had to dig up the skeleton which was a very disappointing thing to do. The joke was on me which is OK because I can laugh at myself.

Of course now I had to hide the body again.

I went through things and found an old tarp, laid the skeleton on it and wrapped it up and tied it into a nice bundle. Then I threw it in the pickup bed with all of the rotten wood and carted it off to the dump.

The dump is interesting. You back into a huge building and simply pile your stuff on a concrete floor and a huge bucket truck comes by, scoops it up and dumps it into a large truck. The truck hauls it off to wherever.

I pulled the body out first and piled the landing scraps and rotten wood on top of it and pulled ahead. Along came the bucket and scooped it up and deposited in the truck, hopefully never to be seen again.

It's fall and had it been spring most likely I would have buried in the back yard and planted endangered flowers on top of it because it would then be illegal to dig it up.

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