# Storage wars.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storage-wars/561936>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 26, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storage-wars/561936 "2010-11-26T00:30:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storage-wars/561936/21 "2010-12-03T02:59:35Z")

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> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#):
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> Why didn’t you sell your stuff before the storage place took it?

Probably because once you’re behind a single payment they don’t allow you access to your stuff, for just this reason.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storage-wars/561936/22 "2011-04-18T17:52:54Z")

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My wife and I started watching this in the past month and it’s the reality show exception (to me) that proves the rule that these things all suck. Yeah, it’s scripted and all that (sometimes badly: I saw one episode where a guy went straight to a drawer to pull out the big find. Question: how did he know to step over 5 feet of tubs to get to this one drawer? :dubious: ), but it’s pretty damned funny at times because I recognize some of the people in the show as acquaintances/family that I have in my real life (for example, my uncle acts a lot like Dave\*.)

Also, something about Barry sounds like he’s done professional voice work in his past - he was a DJ, emcee, something. Anybody else get this impression?

\*In one episode, Barry finds an old baseball card. Dave, pissed off 'cause he didn’t get it, shoots off with “I’ve got pallets of those cards behind my store”, which is exactly the sort of ludicrous “I’ve GOT to have the last word in” statement my uncle would make.

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storage-wars/561936/23 "2011-04-21T18:23:23Z")

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> [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](#):
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> I predict that one day soon there will be a television show that airs pictures of people’s actual soiled laundry, with gastroenterologist and biochemists giving expert opinions on exactly what kind of intestinal distress might have caused each stain, and nutritionists speculating on what each person might have eaten to cause such stains. And then the phrase won’t be a euphemism any more.

Will it be called

Shit Happens? or

Funny Shit? or

That Shit is Wrong?

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**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/storage-wars/561936/24 "2011-04-21T18:25:09Z")

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> [@Bob Ducca](#):
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> Probably because once you’re behind a single payment they don’t allow you access to your stuff, for just this reason.

Or your soon-to-be-ex-whatever zeroes your bank account.

I’m not saying I have experience in this matter, but I know a guy who knows a guy…

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