Did you ever have the feeling you're being watched?
I was M/D a yard in Memphis, Tn. where every other weekend there would be a large yard sale. I was having a little luck in the dropped coin finds, and some junk jewerly, when I had that feeling!
I looked over my shoulder, and was startled to find a very old Black man standing behind me. How long he had been there? I heard no car drive up, yet there was one, an beat up Blue Buick.
Nodding my head in greeting, I resumed my searching. Only I felt that feeling again. Turning around, I found my watcher still right behind me. As everyone out hunting in a public place knows; you attract folks, especially kids. So I asked the old man if I could help him?
Then I got a good look at my friend. He was very Black and his skin was very wrinkled. And to my surprise, his eyes were red, totally. I stepped back. Then he spoke, and I was more than startled.
His teeth were filed to points. Whoa, Nelly!!! What do we have here?
He asked me the standard questions about what I was finding, how deep did my set go, etc. Than came the reason he was interested in my detecting. He claimed he knew where a glass jar was buried full of gold coins. They were under a tree, beneath some large roots, and would I go with him to dig the jar up. Nothing was said about sharing.
Now would you jumped at the chance to go with a stranger, with red eyes and sharpened teeth to look for gold, somewhere? Not me!
Then, again, should I have?
"Boomer"
I was M/D a yard in Memphis, Tn. where every other weekend there would be a large yard sale. I was having a little luck in the dropped coin finds, and some junk jewerly, when I had that feeling!
I looked over my shoulder, and was startled to find a very old Black man standing behind me. How long he had been there? I heard no car drive up, yet there was one, an beat up Blue Buick.
Nodding my head in greeting, I resumed my searching. Only I felt that feeling again. Turning around, I found my watcher still right behind me. As everyone out hunting in a public place knows; you attract folks, especially kids. So I asked the old man if I could help him?
Then I got a good look at my friend. He was very Black and his skin was very wrinkled. And to my surprise, his eyes were red, totally. I stepped back. Then he spoke, and I was more than startled.
His teeth were filed to points. Whoa, Nelly!!! What do we have here?
He asked me the standard questions about what I was finding, how deep did my set go, etc. Than came the reason he was interested in my detecting. He claimed he knew where a glass jar was buried full of gold coins. They were under a tree, beneath some large roots, and would I go with him to dig the jar up. Nothing was said about sharing.
Now would you jumped at the chance to go with a stranger, with red eyes and sharpened teeth to look for gold, somewhere? Not me!
Then, again, should I have?
"Boomer"
