Mary and I, like many of you, toured Luverne over the weekend checking out other peoples’ junk. As we meandered through town, we often found ourselves in an impromptu parade of other junk seekers.We’re more like junk viewers than junk collectors. The true junk collectors are easy to spot. They’ll be driving a truck or pulling a trailer. Of course, if the right junk would present itself, any vehicle can be adapted to a junk hauler. Urban legend has it that a true junk collector can get a three-piece living room set in a four-door sedan.Junk collector drivers, known for driving the speed limit of Sanford and Son, are also safer drivers than rummage sale drivers, as a rule of thumb. Junk collectors rarely drive over the unofficial junk collecting speed limit of 10 mph. Any faster than that and one might miss a buried treasure. Rummage sale drivers, on the other hand, are always in such a hurry to get to the next sale that they sometime forget the posted speed limit.It didn’t take long on our Sunday afternoon junk jaunt to come to the conclusion that at the top of this year’s most popular junk items to set by the curb were the toilet and vacuum cleaner. The sight of toilet after toilet near the curb gave me pause to ponder the fate of the toilet. All but one of the toilets getting the heave-ho were white. The one exception was beige colored.Now I, too, have thrown away a toilet or two in my day but never because they were broken. When you think about it, the toilet is a pretty darn dependable fixture. Sure, the working parts of the toilet wear out from time to time but they’re fairly easy and inexpensive to replace. Even when the parts wear out, more times than not we blame that on the local water quality rather than poor parts.I’ll bet that most of the toilets that found themselves near the curb were there because the bathroom they had called home had been remodeled. Once the discarded toilet makes it to the curb, its fate is sealed. Not even the savviest of junk collectors will pick up a discarded toilet. Sure, the occasional prankster will come by under the cover of darkness and pick up the tossed-out toilet only to further humiliate the porcelain throne by setting it on somebody’s front step as a joke.In the end, for the toilet, at least, the saying "One man’s junk is another man’s treasure" doesn’t apply.