got to the park early today, about an hour in a man comes up and says "Man, what are you doing? I sees you here everyday" I look at him all serious and say " I'm metal detecting looking for buried pirate treasure...I know it's around here somewhere. "there ain't no treasure around here!" I said "you ain't heard of the lost Mayan gold, stolen by John Cleveland himself?...founder of this park" "he buried it here 100 years ago...look it up" I put my headphones back on and went about my way. someday my sense of humor will come back to haunt me
Mine happened, yesterday with a 13-year old boy.
I was detecting alongside a skate park (which is just a MAGNET for comments), and this young man yells at me multiple times. "HEY!" "HEY!"
I finally stop, look up, push my earphones aside, and acknowledge him.
"You know, I'm sure there's a treasure chest there." and starts laughing.
I looked at him, and DONKEY BREYED laughed back. HA HA HA HA!
He stopped and immediately looked uncomfortable. (I'm certain he hadn't thought through what would happen after his 'joke,').
I looked him dead in eyes and said, 'Did you come up with that awesome joke yourself, or did you have to Google it." And made a face at him.
He turned red, and his friends were looking at him like he was a moron.
I put my headset back on and calmly said, "Dude, if you knew how much gold I've already pulled out of this park, you wouldn't be making fun of me. One thing is for sure. I'm making money, and you're not."
He left the park afterward.
Lesson learned by a teenage kid, yesterday... If you're going to make fun of someone, you'd better be prepared for their response.
If he'd have come back with anything else, I was prepared to take it to Defcon 2.
Most days, I've had pretended a chuckle and said "good one!" But this day, the "HEY!" "HEY!" got to me...
LOL
Skippy
