As the self-proclaimed table-finding hero, I asked where they’d put the old (but still new to them) one. They’d given it away. I was puzzled, and they were puzzled that I was puzzled. I couldn’t understand. How could you give away something you just got? Something so perfectly useful? They couldn’t understand why anyone wouldn’t give away something, even if they just got it, if they bought something that logically replaced it.

