Jeff
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We made our monthly trip into the city this morning. The usual route was planned. Costco, Total Wine, Woodcraft, and 5 Guys. After we're on the highway I ask if we can make a small detour to a rather large pawn shop on the way. You would have thought I stepped out on her the way she yelled, screamed, and hollered about "Tools, really? Like you need more @^$#* tools". She was so pissed she even hit the windshield with a little spit.
I figured I'd just sit quietly and drive, when I was really thinking how was I ever going to get laid within the next decade?
After an hour of silence, she final announces that she's sorry for her outburst. I sat there staring straight ahead in disbelief. Was this the same women I married? Then she asks for the address to the pawn shop so she can program the GPS. I'm stunned. I reach in my shirt pocket and give her the tattered paper. I thinking she's going to roll the window down and toss the address.
Nope! I was wrong. She reprogrammed the GPS then promptly punched me hard in the upper arm while grinning like a chesire cat. I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or park the truck and run in the woods trying to find my Man Card.
Anyways, we make it to the pawn shop. The wife stays in the truck and I wander in. I've only been in a pawn shop once, and that was in the late-70s. Luckily I've been studying GJ for pawn shop tips.
There was a ton of tools. I gave the hand tools a good once over. Mentally comparing pawn prices versus new. I was just getting ready to head out the door when I spied a green colored wrench roll. All it said was MADE IN CHINA. I don't know why but I felt compelled to open it. Inside was a new set of MAC Ratcheting Offset Box wrenches. The price on the roll was $7. I started trembling. I knew they couldn't possibly let set go for $7.
So off to the counter I go. As soon as I lay the roll on the counter the sales clerk scoops it up and lays it open. I was doomed. Somehow I reached low in my soul and said "Hey, will you take 5 bucks?" The clerk looks at the wrenches, then me, then the wrenches again. He asks "Do you need the canvas roll?" No, I replied. You've never seen me slap $5.30 on a counter so fast.
1st Score: $5.30 (tax incl)
Next up was K-Mart. The wife likes their curtains and needed some valances. So I wander off to the Craftsman area. I spotted these Craftsman Metric stubby wrenches. They were on a peg on an end cap. Each marked $5.
I walked around bit deciding whether I had a need for stubby wrenches. The price was about 1/2 off new, and I do use metrics extensively. I wandered back to grab the wrenches and an employee was marking them down even further. I was going to buy those, I said. "Here", she says while handing me the wrenches. They're now marked at a buck a piece!
2nd Score: $2.12 (tax incl)
What a great day!
I figured I'd just sit quietly and drive, when I was really thinking how was I ever going to get laid within the next decade?
After an hour of silence, she final announces that she's sorry for her outburst. I sat there staring straight ahead in disbelief. Was this the same women I married? Then she asks for the address to the pawn shop so she can program the GPS. I'm stunned. I reach in my shirt pocket and give her the tattered paper. I thinking she's going to roll the window down and toss the address.
Nope! I was wrong. She reprogrammed the GPS then promptly punched me hard in the upper arm while grinning like a chesire cat. I didn't know whether to laugh, cry, or park the truck and run in the woods trying to find my Man Card.
Anyways, we make it to the pawn shop. The wife stays in the truck and I wander in. I've only been in a pawn shop once, and that was in the late-70s. Luckily I've been studying GJ for pawn shop tips.
There was a ton of tools. I gave the hand tools a good once over. Mentally comparing pawn prices versus new. I was just getting ready to head out the door when I spied a green colored wrench roll. All it said was MADE IN CHINA. I don't know why but I felt compelled to open it. Inside was a new set of MAC Ratcheting Offset Box wrenches. The price on the roll was $7. I started trembling. I knew they couldn't possibly let set go for $7.
So off to the counter I go. As soon as I lay the roll on the counter the sales clerk scoops it up and lays it open. I was doomed. Somehow I reached low in my soul and said "Hey, will you take 5 bucks?" The clerk looks at the wrenches, then me, then the wrenches again. He asks "Do you need the canvas roll?" No, I replied. You've never seen me slap $5.30 on a counter so fast.
1st Score: $5.30 (tax incl)
Next up was K-Mart. The wife likes their curtains and needed some valances. So I wander off to the Craftsman area. I spotted these Craftsman Metric stubby wrenches. They were on a peg on an end cap. Each marked $5.
I walked around bit deciding whether I had a need for stubby wrenches. The price was about 1/2 off new, and I do use metrics extensively. I wandered back to grab the wrenches and an employee was marking them down even further. I was going to buy those, I said. "Here", she says while handing me the wrenches. They're now marked at a buck a piece!
2nd Score: $2.12 (tax incl)
What a great day!
well, did you get laid after all that wife abuse....?
