I found a free kettle on CL this summer, and was curious as to why he was giving it away. Turns out he got some huge drum-type charcoal grill/side smoker unit for Father's Day, and he didn't have room on the deck anymore (srsly, the thing was over 6 feet long).
He was really proud of his new toy, but he was swearing up a storm about the two butts he had tried to smoke the day before. He spent like 13 hours chasing the temps up and down, and in the end he said it tasted terrible. I didn't have the heart to tell him he was *giving away* a *far* superior smoker in favor of a whiz-bang shiny POS. I thanked him for his grill, gave it a quick cleaning, added an ash bucket, and delivered it to my friend's deck. The next weekend, he was cranking out awesome shoulders like a pro.