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[Dancer]

All stupid questions. Here are some of the questions with some of my answers. I sat these jokingly of course.

1. Q. What's the best thing you ever found.
A. Well your the best thing today! (If it's a gal)

Q. How much have you found today?
A. Almost enough for a beer, can you help me?

Q. What are you looking for? (One of my favorites)
A. A lonely heart.

Q. Are you looking for oysters or clams ? (This was a new one this year)
A. No miss, I'm trapping lobsters.

Q. Do any good today?
A. Couldn't even find my way home.

Or how about this one? Guy walks up says, I got one of them. Ok, so I bite. "Where's it at"? "Oh, up in my room." What's that supposed to mean?

Last one
I'm up to my belt wading. Guy on shore, starts asking questions. I got headphones on & there's surf. He goes on and on. Finally I say, can't hear a thing your saying. Come on out here. (Waters pretty cold) He declines.


I guess I get it a lot cause mostly I'm the only hunter around. You guys got any?

 

[SYL]

All the time.. The last time it happened I wasn't even on the beach but walking back to my place when a guy yelled out down the street "Hey! Guy with the Metal Detector!" and came running up to me to talk about it. Turned into a small interview lol but he was cool and I like to talk..

The one i'm tired of though is, "Do you actually find stuff with that thing?" Haha.. duh.

 

[mudpuppy]

I love it! A guy always needs a mental rollodex of smart alec answers to obvious questions! You know you are going to get them, so be prepared!

Q: "How does that thing work?" A: "Swallow this penny, and lay down and I'll show you"...

Q: "Found anything good?" A: "Yeah, peace and quiet until you showed up"!

Conversation: "My Uncle/Grandpa/Nephew are 'detectors' and once found a bag full of Roman hammered gold coins, right here in Peoria at the local park... have you ever found anything?"

A: " Last week I found 3 handguns, several 10lb gold ingots, 2 sacks of emeralds, a 92 Ford Ranger with the title in the glovebox and keys in the ignition"....."What? You are bullcrapping me!"
"Well, you started it"...

Always remember, just because a stranger asks a question, dont mean you have to give them an honest answer! Have that mental rollodex ready to go, you will need it! If not, just say "no speakie english"

The one you have to be supremely ready for is that rich young widow/divorcee with a lonely heart, walking down the beach, early of a morning, deep in contemplation about the lack of really good Men....by god, you better be on your game! Advice: carry some tictacs, and suck in your gut...

But alas, I dream..what we do is no way to meet wimmen, we are a real 'turn off' all grubby and fat (just ask my Wife)...Oh sure, Nuggetnoggin scored, but he's half our age, has a quad, not unpleasing to look at or listen to, plus, He's an internet sensation!..one in 10,000!... A guy would be better off wearing a traffic cone on their head, dancing around at a highway exit with a cute little puppy, begging for clad... !
Mud

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Ive been asked all the routine questions...however my 2 favorites are: 1. a semi drunken guy approaches me in the dark pre dawn hr of 430am and asks if i have found any gold yet today all the while i can see the wheels in his head turning deciding what he will do if i say yes... so i look him square and close the gap between us and say NO do you have any on you? he promptly said no and took off up the beach never seen by me again... 2. my favorite was the cute little 8 year old pouting girl who asked if i could find her daddys ring.... i was able to find it in about 20 minutes...the whole family cheered when i found it...felt good to save thier day...

 

[jamesinwesttexas]

I've decided the best thing to do in most cases is just show them my trash bag and let it go at that.

 

[Dancer]

n/t

 

[sandbandit]

Here's a good one - hunting at night in a neighborhood park, the cops show up, said they were responding to a complaint from one of the neighbors that I was "burying bodies" - asked me politely to wrap it up and move on so they wouldn't get any more calls. Gave a quick "Show & Tell" to them with my Spectrum XLT - they thought that was pretty cool.

 

[Dancer]

Here's a good one - hunting at night in a neighborhood park, the cops show up, said they were responding to a complaint from one of the neighbors that I was "burying bodies" - asked me politely to wrap it up and move on so they wouldn't get any more calls. Gave a quick "Show & Tell" to them with my Spectrum XLT - they thought that was pretty cool.

You could have been picking night crawlers.

 

[Beach Bandit]

When I'm detecting at the ocean and someone, or some group ask me what have you found ? My reply... a "social life"...Before I bought this equipment no one on the beach would talk to me...Now everyone on the beach wants to talk to me! And I usually end it there , and they walk away shaking their heads. I think Dancer can attest to this.

 

[Syd BC]

Bootyhoundpa,

I read your story about the little 8 year old girl who asked you to help find her daddy's ring and it reminded me of a similar experience.

Several years ago I was detecting the beach with my nephew when a group of small children ran up to us and asked if we would help find their mother's wedding ring. Always willing to help we followed them to a picnic area on a lawn not far away. There we found the whole extended family on their hands and knees searching for the lost ring. They agreed to all step back so that we could search the area with our detectors. After about 10 minutes I got good surface signal and found a ladies gold ring in the grass. The whole crowd started cheering and congratulating us. I handed the ring to the wife, she looked at it, then handed it back to me and said "that's not my ring". The husband rushed up and urged her to take another look. I handed it to her again, she looked at it, handed it back to me, then said "do you think I don't know my own wedding ring". I put the ring in my pocket. We searched another 30 minutes but never did find her ring.

Some days at the beach are just more interesting than others.

Syd

 

[bootyhoundpa]

Great story syd...too bad her ring coundnt be found...she must have left it somewhere else...at least you got rewarded for your effort...i got rewarded too.the guys wife gave me a 20 spot and a thank you thru tears of joy...

 

[dewcon4414]

I once told a Russian i was looking for mines.....

 

[silver searcher]

My favourite question which is often asked when I am shoulder deep. "Is that machine waterproof?" Make up your answer to that!

 

[Grilled Scallops]

I love the "are you looking for clams?" I've been asked it once before and I just laughed. I'm usually pretty honest with people and tell them I mostly dig junk but I might have to start trying some of these answers. We have friendly local detectorists and I'll sometimes stop to chat with them. One of them loves his tall tales though. If I ask him if he's found anything, he'll say something like "gotta 10k last week with 90 rubies in it," the best part is he usually doesn't remember me so he's always got a 10k with 90 rubies or 60 emeralds...last week!

 

[kimbershot]

I live close to a "destination" beach that sees visitors from all over the world. i don't mind chatting with tourists for a bit--and many times i'll carry a pocket full of V nickles if there are kids around and give him/her/them a "lucky coin" to remember their vacation.

 

[JayLT76]

Down in FL i actually had a couple come up to me and TELL me what i was doing! lol They were from India and the wife did not speak English but the husband did. I saw them out of the corner of my eye making a bee line straight for me so i was thinking either they just lost something or i was about to get bombarded by the usual question and answer period. To my surprise the husband without so much as a hello proceeded to tell me i was doing research on the beach looking for oil deposits. Like i said this was a surprised as i have never just had someone walk up to me and tell me what i was doing and as i tried to explain to him what i was actually doing he cut me off and told me his wife was a scientist and that she told him what i was doing. So with that i bid them farewell and continued looking for oil deposits. lol

 

[GeorgeinSC]

Since I use a mesh bag for my beach finds it is hard to not admit to having found something when I am asked if I am finding anything. I usually just reply "Pull Tabs, lead sinkers and the occasional coin." And keep on working. Unless it should happen to be a pretty young lady in a Bikini.

 

[Mrmikejackie]

I once was asked if I was poor Mike

 

[Dancer]

I was hunting a nice park in a upscale town once. Two women in their early thirties came by walking their dogs. Shortly after picking up after her dog, this one asked. "Are you one of those people who pick up dirty coins?" I was in a squat just than, and she was looking down her rather snooty nose at me. I stood up and said. "Some people pick up money, some pick up dog do do!"
Her girlfriend about peed herself laughing. The one almost yanked her dogs neck off leaving in a huff.

 

[Syd BC]

That's a good one Dancer.