I, uh...could use a few bucks...
Mike
In a message dated 8/12/00 8:32:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
GremlinGTs@aol.com writes:
> Well, it couldn't have started off better for me this Saturday morning!
> Had planned on going to an auction early, but got a later start than I
> wanted
> to. Left the house at 1/4 to 9, drove to the corner, turned it, and then
> notice a flurry of paper blowing down the street...sayyyyyyyyyy, doesn't
> that
> look like MONEY!? I hit the brakes, threw the truck into park , hit the
> emergency lights, and my girlfriend and I jumped out to pursue the errant
> paper bits...wow, it's $20 bills! We rounded up 6, with a lady in an old
> Ford
> Maverick ahead of us stopping to do the same...I don't think she got as
much
>
> as I did, I got $100, the girlfriend got $20, so I shared equally with
her.
> Then as the lady up front pulled away, we noticed another bill that was
> under
> the spot she just left, so we got that one, and made the total $140...if
we'
> d
> have left a few minutes earlier or later, we'd have missed the "Blessed
> Event"! No one came back looking for any money, there were Home Depot
> receipts mixed in with the money, so they must have had it all on the
> dashboard or something stupid and it blew out the window. Oh well! We kept
> going, and bought alot of stuff at the auction...I spent $44, she spent
$38,
>
> not bad for a free paid day at the auction! Got some good stuff really
cheap,
>
> I wanted an old Lionel "O" Gauge train, but that went rather high, at $270
> for a decent blue 40's or '50's tinplate train that had snake-jointed
cars.
> I
> went to $150, but stopped there. I got some patio furniture, a nice
> tractor-pull type of small trailer for only $35, and some box-lot stuff of
> $1/box variety. After we loaded up in the early afternoon, we hit some toy
> stores and fabric stores. I found a new TF '55 Chevy Cameo Truck, by
Johnny
> Lightning, it's a Monopoly series vehicle with a van and an SUV being the
> other two I saw, at Wal-mart for $3. It's white with Water Works on it,
> 1/64th scale, and the neat thing is, in the package is a bonus TF Monopoly
> piece for the board game! So you can play monopoly with a '55 Chevy Cameo
> truck piece. The others had little pieces as well, so you can now have a
> vehicle version game. Other vehicles listed include the '57 Chevy,
Mustang,
> Willys, Corvette, Crown Vic, Pontiac Tempest, Dodge Viper, Chevy Tahoe,
> Dodge
> Dart, and Utility Van. These are all current cars produced by Johnny
> Lightning under different series, probably. But the game pieces are neat.
I
> didn't see any of these at Toys R Us, just Wal-mart today.
> I didn't find any AMC toys worth my time, only one more purple JL
> Thunderjet Javelin AMX, and I have plenty of those, so I left it. Pretty
> sparse for AMC toys today, but the old Cameo truck was nice. Got home,
> unloaded the truck, and went thru some of the treasures. The girlfriend
hit
> the jackpot on a $1 box lot, lots of clothes, some from the Orient, and
half
>
> of them she could wear. Some were exceedingly fine, some silk, some
> polyester. Me AND my feet were just glad to be home! We decided not to
tell
> the teenager, as he would think he'd be owed a cut of the loot! LOL! NOT!
So,
>
> time to close down and enjoy the afterglow of a day well spent, but not
> costing us a dime! :) Hope everyone else had such good luck today! G'nite!
>
> Jerry
> Money for nuthin', ( but the chicks still aren't free...)
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