What is freewriting? Freewriting is writing whatever comes to mind, usually writing for a predetermined amount of time without regard to spelling, grammar, structure, etc. and no editing is done. We have chosen five minutes for right now, we will add or subtract from that in the weeks to come as we see fit.

So last weekend, I had a couple drinks with a girl at this club. I told her how I’m working at my parents’ storage business. And then she goes on to say something about how she heard about one time when one storage place was doing an auction (that’s where a tenant has failed to make payments, they are locked out of their unit, and then their belongings in the unit is sold at an auction to recover their missing payments). Apparently, when they opened it, there was a bin with a freaking human leg in it! What the hell? She didn’t have any details on the person that owned it, but the fact that someone would put human body parts in a storage facility never occurred to me (but then I just remembered Silence of the Lambs… or was it the sequel?) So now I’m a little bit paranoid at what people are putting in the units here. We don’t have access to their stuff, they get their own locks we have no keys to, so we can’t just go in without cutting off the locks (which we don’t do unless we do an auction). We have under air units too, and we make sure that no one is living in one. We do a walk around inspection before we close, and check that there are no unlocked units. If there are, we check inside to see if it is empty (usually those are people who move out without notifying us). And I am up and over 5 minutes! Isn’t a storage facility business fascinating?

Freewrite Friday is actually a great idea that I got from Shelli. Thanks!