About 15 years ago, they tore down the old elementary school in our town and offered to give away the bricks. When I wasn’t looking, my wife, who went to that school and had an emotional attachment, agreed to take a load of bricks. When I came home and found a 4-foot pile in our driveway and asked my wife what the heck (I didn’t say heck) I was going to do with that many bricks, she shrugged and walked away.