Tonight at the trading post

There is an interesting chain of exchanges that could happen at the Baltimore Craigs List site. Under barter we find these ads:

Trade Altima for big screen HDTV

They want to trade a running 1993 Nissan Altima for a big screen HDTV.

Further down the page I find:

Willing to trade 42" HDTV for pool table!!!!

He or she has a Phillips rear screen projection they are willing to trade for a pool table.

Then we find:

Slate Pool table for . . .

This guy has a slate pool table and would like to trade it for a pinball machine or a an arcade video game. Or anything interesting. He or she will consider all trades.

This pool table is smaller than the one the TV guy wants but sometimes people will settle. So there you go, if you have something interesting and can talk a good game you could end up with a car. The really weird thing is that all of this is on the same page. To figure this deal out all you really need is to be able to read all the entries on the page. I'm just sayin'