Episode 95: The unit next to my storage unit had the same padlock on it for thirteen years and the manager only told me whose it was after it went to auction
Submitted by Lorna — Tucson, Arizona. 47. My mother died in June of 2013, and in Tucson you do not leave a dead woman's piano in a garage in June. Everything she owned would have warped. So I rented a climate-controlled unit off Speedway, second floor, interior hallway, number 213, and I moved her whole life into a ten-by-ten room that hummed. The unit to my left, 214, had a padlock on it. A round brass one, the heavy kind with the shackle tucked down inside so you can't get bolt cutters on it. It had a little scratch across the face like somebody had dragged a key over it. It was the only…
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