After my most recent post on some auction gold that I found..it made me remember another story. You can see my previous auction gold post here:
I was strolling through an outside flea market, just minding my own business, when this guy yells...."Hey man, you need to buy you some keys?" Surely I misheard that...but nope, he has a freakin' old style trunk, literally full of keys on keychains.
Part of me just wanted to start speaking Thai and say "No Englash, sorry" and run away. The side of me was lookin' for the profit margin in this train wreck.
I mean, it was a huge-ass trunk full of keys. What kind of sick key clepto Mo-fo collected a million sets of other people's keys? What's that all about?
I couldn't help myself, so I asked how much? "Fifty dollars my man". I just smiled. "Okay, how about twenty?"....I began my walk away... "Give me ten dollars"....So I just shake my head.
"Okay man, give me 2 bucks and I'll help you load it up". Deal. There is a shit ton of brass and copper in that trunk for 2 bucks. Plus my wife will be so thrilled that I brought home 2,000 other people's keys 😁
That evening I drank a beer and sorted keys, yep, old versus new.....copper versus brass. What fun!!
Then...suddenly without warning! A thin 10k gold band attached to a set of keys!! Whaaaattt?
This key sorting just got a whole lot more interesting!
I went on to find 7 more gold wedding bands, 10k, 14k, and one 18k.
8 gold rings inside a trunk of junk that I almost passed on!
Scrap haul for the copper and brass was $110.00. So it was worth my time. The old empty trunk was just free and my wife still uses it to store our extra blankets inside.
The 8 gold rings were bonus scores and taught me to always take a second glance at keychains thrown in boxes at auctions and sales!
Hope that you enjoyed my flea market gold story!
Please upvote, Resteem, and don't take people's keychains.