steve in so la
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Frank's post started me thinking about how others perceive our hobby. When someone asks me what I do with all my time in retirement I hedge around other things like my volunteer job, I try to change the subject, etc. as I feel most have a preconceived idea of a guy on the beach in shorts & high socks picking up pennies.
As detecting is so much more, most people can't understand it. Between the goofy cartoons they make about us and the scumbags who sneak into sites, pillage & make the criminal news we are not in an enviable situation.
Question : what do you all tell people when they ask you what you do in your off times ? steve in so az
As detecting is so much more, most people can't understand it. Between the goofy cartoons they make about us and the scumbags who sneak into sites, pillage & make the criminal news we are not in an enviable situation.
Question : what do you all tell people when they ask you what you do in your off times ? steve in so az