Well Brothers, got up early, 4:30am-ish, made a pot of coffee and checked the forums...Saw Zeeks gold chain find!..
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My mind was in neutral, which is the norm, I idly drove down the road at a slow rate of speed, not thinking about anything in particular, and wound up in my standard totlot early Sat am milk run...
Picked clean!, every last one of them!
The Big Lake was dead flat, but I was too tired and disgusted and lazy to wader up and go on in....So I drove around punching random totters, smoking, drinking coffee, and listening to the radio.. Getting on close to 8am, weekend traffic picking up, man I'm moving slow! One urban and dangerous totter for some reason entered my mind, WAY outside the 'green zone' and off limits as far as my Wife is concerned...a real trashy ethnic urban kinda park, not the usual trashy ethnic place I would go unnoticed in either, like the mall, or the boatramp...
But, I was feeling a bit churlish, salty perhaps, with a bit of insubordination mixed in, randy even, actually enjoying the thought of a possible fisticuffable confrontation with some sort of worthy adversary, somebody small and weak, like maybe in the 3rd grader or so?, perhaps a cripple?, or a girl even?....Angry about my paltry haul thus far..although the coin count was decent and would get me props here I figured if I came up with a good interesting diatribe about 'settings' and all.....y'all have manners, and generally say "hey, nice work" no matter what a guy finds..
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Not hoping for much except maybe a few Q's to add to my dismal take...I went through the wire and bounce dived on in! Pulled into the parking lot, and I am crapping you negative! ...I told y'all this was gonna happen eventually! But I never actually expected it!, I'm such a bullcrapper!, I dont know who to believe! Right there in the parking lot was a wad of bills! Unmistakeable! Highlighted by the rising Sun! I saw the 20 on the outside of the fold, and quickly pocketed the pile, glanced around, head on a swivel, and commenced to briskly sweep the whole area by eye for other paper stragglers, using my rig as a 'prop' so to speak...
I figured I'd got a 20 and some ones or something...but once safe back in Rosie, doing the count, I nearly and most likely soiled myself bloody rotten!.
..heres the paper take! 
I told you!
Bought some beer and went on home!.....it wasnt even 9am!...Wife was up and gave me the 3rd degree.....said she hasnt seen dink gold or jewelry out of me in a while, asked if I had a girlfriend I was giving all my found jewelry to? Psssh! One can hope! So I whipped out the fresh paper stack, waved it under her nose and said: "How do you like these apples!?".......and that my friends, is how I found and lost $600 between 8 and 9 am today...I got to keep the 2.96 in clad, which represents a pair of 25oz Budlights.....damned old Zeek and Jimmy...I crap you not, I told you I would find a stack of bills if I stayed at it early, hard and often, and today was my day! Oh, she let me eat the candy bar, so thats good right?
Mud
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....My mind was in neutral, which is the norm, I idly drove down the road at a slow rate of speed, not thinking about anything in particular, and wound up in my standard totlot early Sat am milk run...
Picked clean!, every last one of them!
The Big Lake was dead flat, but I was too tired and disgusted and lazy to wader up and go on in....So I drove around punching random totters, smoking, drinking coffee, and listening to the radio.. Getting on close to 8am, weekend traffic picking up, man I'm moving slow! One urban and dangerous totter for some reason entered my mind, WAY outside the 'green zone' and off limits as far as my Wife is concerned...a real trashy ethnic urban kinda park, not the usual trashy ethnic place I would go unnoticed in either, like the mall, or the boatramp...But, I was feeling a bit churlish, salty perhaps, with a bit of insubordination mixed in, randy even, actually enjoying the thought of a possible fisticuffable confrontation with some sort of worthy adversary, somebody small and weak, like maybe in the 3rd grader or so?, perhaps a cripple?, or a girl even?....Angry about my paltry haul thus far..although the coin count was decent and would get me props here I figured if I came up with a good interesting diatribe about 'settings' and all.....y'all have manners, and generally say "hey, nice work" no matter what a guy finds..
...Not hoping for much except maybe a few Q's to add to my dismal take...I went through the wire and bounce dived on in! Pulled into the parking lot, and I am crapping you negative! ...I told y'all this was gonna happen eventually! But I never actually expected it!, I'm such a bullcrapper!, I dont know who to believe!
Right there in the parking lot was a wad of bills! Unmistakeable! Highlighted by the rising Sun! I saw the 20 on the outside of the fold, and quickly pocketed the pile, glanced around, head on a swivel, and commenced to briskly sweep the whole area by eye for other paper stragglers, using my rig as a 'prop' so to speak...I figured I'd got a 20 and some ones or something...but once safe back in Rosie, doing the count, I nearly and most likely soiled myself bloody rotten!.
..heres the paper take! I told you! Bought some beer and went on home!.....it wasnt even 9am!...Wife was up and gave me the 3rd degree.....said she hasnt seen dink gold or jewelry out of me in a while, asked if I had a girlfriend I was giving all my found jewelry to? Psssh! One can hope! So I whipped out the fresh paper stack, waved it under her nose and said: "How do you like these apples!?".......and that my friends, is how I found and lost $600 between 8 and 9 am today...I got to keep the 2.96 in clad, which represents a pair of 25oz Budlights.....damned old Zeek and Jimmy...I crap you not, I told you I would find a stack of bills if I stayed at it early, hard and often, and today was my day! Oh, she let me eat the candy bar, so thats good right?
Mud
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....I would prefer I could find the right party...if I can, I'll get a picture of the return! That is, if I can pry those bills out of the Wifes hands!
have to be happy with that never know whats going to show up but the universe gets us what we work hard for, so well done !