Hi,
Yesterday I noticed 400 or so cars at a soccer field complex, so bright and early this a.m. I'm there figuring there is three or four dollars of clad for the finding. This is the same complex where someone called the cops on me a few weeks ago.
So, I am there ten minutes, working, and an SUV races into the parking lot and slides to a stop next to me. This young woman rolls down her tinted window and demands to know if I had found anything. Being basically polite I told her no, I had just gotten there.
So, she spins the tires throwing gravel on me and races down the lot and slides to a stop 60-70 yards away. She jumps out, organizes two small children then takes a rake from the back of the SUV and frantically begins to rake the gravel. There is dust and rocks flying, this woman is serious.
How, I figure she has lost something and I considered offering to help. But, she hadn't asked and had been rude, so I go back to what I was doing.
Fifteen-twenty minutes later, I see her packing the kids back in the SUV and she spins out and races to where I am working and slides to a stop. She has the window down and flashes her left hand at me. She explains she had lost her engagement ring and seeing me there was frantic to find it before I did.
I told her I'd have been happy to have helped her, but she seemed a little skeptical that an old guy would or could have helped.
Now, I am not an expert on diamonds, but I'd guess it was at least a carat solitaire. So, I found $1.89 in clad.
Now, if I had gotten there a little earlier and started working the other end of the parking lot I'd have had a diamond solitaire ring.
Makes me wondered how many times I have missed something because I just wasn't looking in the right place.
Roper
Yesterday I noticed 400 or so cars at a soccer field complex, so bright and early this a.m. I'm there figuring there is three or four dollars of clad for the finding. This is the same complex where someone called the cops on me a few weeks ago.
So, I am there ten minutes, working, and an SUV races into the parking lot and slides to a stop next to me. This young woman rolls down her tinted window and demands to know if I had found anything. Being basically polite I told her no, I had just gotten there.
So, she spins the tires throwing gravel on me and races down the lot and slides to a stop 60-70 yards away. She jumps out, organizes two small children then takes a rake from the back of the SUV and frantically begins to rake the gravel. There is dust and rocks flying, this woman is serious.
How, I figure she has lost something and I considered offering to help. But, she hadn't asked and had been rude, so I go back to what I was doing.
Fifteen-twenty minutes later, I see her packing the kids back in the SUV and she spins out and races to where I am working and slides to a stop. She has the window down and flashes her left hand at me. She explains she had lost her engagement ring and seeing me there was frantic to find it before I did.
I told her I'd have been happy to have helped her, but she seemed a little skeptical that an old guy would or could have helped.
Now, I am not an expert on diamonds, but I'd guess it was at least a carat solitaire. So, I found $1.89 in clad.
Now, if I had gotten there a little earlier and started working the other end of the parking lot I'd have had a diamond solitaire ring.
Makes me wondered how many times I have missed something because I just wasn't looking in the right place.
Roper
