Bad Experience Yesterday at an Antique Shop looking for coins

You mean you need to "learn" how to? :devil:

 

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Pull my finger.

 

It's absolutely amazing, and I love it, that threads can go off on such unrelated tangents.

 

I'd like some advice concerning this topic but from another direction. What do you do when you're a customer waiting to look at coins and the person in front of you is taking forever?

I was at a show with my four year old. We found a table with a book filled with everything we wanted: circulated pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. A woman was bent over the book and she looked like she was inspecting each piece with the utmost scrutiny. We stood to the side, feet away from her, waiting. After a few minutes we left, checked out a few tables, and we even purchased some 10 for $1 world coins. We went back to the table and she was still there. We left, I found a silver chinese panda I wanted, and after purchasing it, went back to the table and she was still there. She must've been there for an hour. We gave up and went home.

She had a small stack of coins pulled from the album, so she was definitely a paying customer, but what would you have done in my case?

 

That would be my choice as well but I can't let farts go at will and I can't let them accumulate until I need them either. Wishful thinking though. I honestly don't know what I would have done in the same position as the OP. I think it would depend on my mood, I can be flippant, rude or both at the same time. Plus I know how to embarrass people really well so I think I would have gone for the embarrassment factor.

 

Difficult one, she has posession, so about all you could do is wait. I was looking over some junk boxes at one of the last coin shows I went to and another person sat down next to me and I passed over to him the coins I had looked at. It worked very well.

 

This reminds me of a funny incident that happened at the local bar, this guy would leave his beer on the bar to go to the bathroom, when he came back someone would have drained off the rest of his brew.

So he figures he will stop that stuff, so the next time before he hits the can he writes a little note, I spit in this beer, leaves it on the beer and does his business.

He comes back and someone has written underneath it, "so did I"

 

He would have been better off writing, "HIV Positive!"

Chris

 

I say go for it old guy.
You learned all those rude ways from experince.
Just watch a christmas sale at walmart and thats how old folks learn if you want it just take it.

 

yeah cause spiky wristbands and belts usually means you are a badass....sorry but I would assume the exact opposite and you would be in a sad state if you tried to nudge me out of the way.....but that being said I would never crowd you if you were looking at something like a coin tray so we would probably not have any problems.......and yes this thread has definitely hit the skids....its done!

 

First thought? I'd have gone home too. The dear lady in question sure seems (ed) to have a lock on things. Whatever it was she was seeking appears to have engrossed her attention. Move on to the next table, dear friend, there's nothing for you to see here. Rather, engross yourself else ware.