PlasteredDragon
Elite Member
Helps your perspective?
How?
That the kid thought you were so poor you had to search for lost change?
Isn't it obvious? To not always think ill of other people.
Helps your perspective?
How?
That the kid thought you were so poor you had to search for lost change?
Yep, that has happened a few times, if they are being super obnoxous, I tell them quit being so cheap, and throw down some 50 cent pieces or silver and gold. They usually look startled.
Just last week I had a guy sitting on a picnic table nearby at the park toss a handful of clad out in the higher grass and asked me if I think I could find it. I walked over and found 3 dimes, a nickel, 6 pennies and 3 quarters (to be fair, I spotted most of it without the detector). He watched as I swung my detector over a few spots and picked up the coins I saw. I showed it to him, and he seemed impressed that I found it. He then asked "Do you ever make any money doing this?" I said "Well, I just made $1.16 off of you in about 3 minutes." and put the coins in my coin pouch. He laughed and said "fair enough" and left me alone after that.
, It takes a while for some people to catch on to some things doesn't it .
I was detecting near a teenager in a park. She asked me the usual, whatcha doin? So I gave my stock answer, I'm cleaning the county parks one pull tab at a time. She cocked her head, considered that, then said, gee, I didn't know they paid someone to do that!
Sweet niblets. I'll never be able to look at a propointer the same again!. Except for that one time at the beach when a girl referred to my ProPointer as a vibrator. lol .
My home is located near the rear gate of a large military installation, and one of the parks I metal detect in lies just across a lake from the main post.
While detecting in this park one day I noticed a fellow wearing black motorcycle leathers, appearing to be asleep on one of the tables, with his bike and black helmet resting against it.
Having nearly completed metal detecting the park I was finishing up in the tot lot, digging for a quarter in the bark.
As I started to stand up I noticed that the guy had approached my rear and was watching from a few feet away.
As he opened his mouth to speak I steeled myself for the usual....."finding anything"?
Instead he asked if I was from the fort, and if I was, he was glad to see me.
Take aback by this I asked why he asked that.
He said that he was a Korean War veteran who had lived here all his life and had ridden his bike in this park for many years, and he knew what was going on.
I asked him to let me in on it, I wasn't from the fort, but I was a veteran and whatever concerned him concerned me.
He said he knew for several years that the Army had been lobbing those shells over this way, he knew that I was a metal detector expert, and he was glad they had finally sent someone over to clean up their mess.
I asked him if he'd ever seen or heard a shell fall here, or had he ever seen anyone find one.
He said no he hadn't, but now that I was there, he would watch to see how long it took me to find one.
I asked if he really felt safe knowing that some of these shells may have not exploded, and maybe my metal detector would set them off if I did find one.
Shaking his head, grabbing his helmet and straddling his bike the guy frantically pedaled away.
As he left he said he knew there was strings attached anytime the government was involved, and he wasn't about to be blown up for their pleasure.
I took my few pieces of clad and scatted out of the park so that if he returned anytime soon I would be long gone.
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That is funny! Bless your heart - a working beggar!Counts as a "find"!!!!
Isn't it obvious? To not always think ill of other people.
The other day at a sidewalk tear out, I was on my knees trying to find my target. A man in a pickup truck stopped next to me. I didn't hear what he said because I had my headphones on. I took them off and walked up to him. "Oh" he said. "I thought that you were a blind man with a cane trying to cross the street. I was going to help you."