M-Taliesin
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Howdy Folks!
We were getting pretty heavy snow, so detecting was out, but I was out detecting anyhow. Didn't get much either.
Anyhow, I stopped at the King Soopers on my way toward home, partly because I needed batteries for my camera and partly to warm up some because it was rightly cold out there.
I gathered up some stuff I wanted and headed for the checkout, only to find a longish line at each and every single one. I opted for the self service lines, and they were long too!
My turn finally rolled around and I scanned my items and hit the pay now button. I decided to write a check and headed for the cashier, who noticed my White's Metal Detector hat and jacket. She smiled sweetly as she said look at this! She reached into the cash drawer and pulled out a whole handful of silver dollars. Must have been 12 or 15 of them, perhaps more. Right on top of the stack in her hand was an 1888 Morgan! You don't mean to tell me somebody used them at cash value for groceries, do you? She smiled and said Yep. They cashed 'em in last night!
You wouldn't care to part with any of them would you? I asked hopefully.
Nope. I save them for my dad. He collects them!
I walked out to my car, with the little bit of clad I'd found on that hunt in my pocket, and my heart breaking!
Somebody cashed in well over $300 bucks worth of silver dollars for maybe $18 bucks worth of groceries. Worse, she wasn't willing to part with any of them.
I drove off to my next hunt, and for reasons I don't fully understand, felt horribly depressed for the rest of the afternoon!
Blessings,
M-Taliesin
We were getting pretty heavy snow, so detecting was out, but I was out detecting anyhow. Didn't get much either.
Anyhow, I stopped at the King Soopers on my way toward home, partly because I needed batteries for my camera and partly to warm up some because it was rightly cold out there.
I gathered up some stuff I wanted and headed for the checkout, only to find a longish line at each and every single one. I opted for the self service lines, and they were long too!
My turn finally rolled around and I scanned my items and hit the pay now button. I decided to write a check and headed for the cashier, who noticed my White's Metal Detector hat and jacket. She smiled sweetly as she said look at this! She reached into the cash drawer and pulled out a whole handful of silver dollars. Must have been 12 or 15 of them, perhaps more. Right on top of the stack in her hand was an 1888 Morgan! You don't mean to tell me somebody used them at cash value for groceries, do you? She smiled and said Yep. They cashed 'em in last night!
You wouldn't care to part with any of them would you? I asked hopefully.
Nope. I save them for my dad. He collects them!
I walked out to my car, with the little bit of clad I'd found on that hunt in my pocket, and my heart breaking!
Somebody cashed in well over $300 bucks worth of silver dollars for maybe $18 bucks worth of groceries. Worse, she wasn't willing to part with any of them.
I drove off to my next hunt, and for reasons I don't fully understand, felt horribly depressed for the rest of the afternoon!
Blessings,
M-Taliesin
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