GIVING THEM AWAY

He phoned and said, ‘she wants me to pick up two chairs from you. When can I come round?’
‘Now,’ I said, ‘I’m off out at ten.’
‘I’ll wait until nine-thirty, give the traffic a chance to clear.’
‘Ok,’ I said, ‘I’ll leave them outside at the top.’
There was a man from the floor above in the lift I got in with the chairs who said, ‘getting rid of stuff?’
‘Giving them away,’ I said and then, ‘it’s hard moving stuff in and out of this place.’
‘Yes,’ he said, texting.