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Message:: [QUOTE="ewomack, post: 4411896, member: 15588"]Maybe 5 years ago, my wife and I went on a day road trip and along the way we drove by an antique shop in an extremely small town. We decided to stop not only because it looked interesting, but because we also needed a car break. We entered the shop and the building looked early 1900s with a musty smell, cracked paint, hanging electrical wires, creaky floorboards, cracks running up the walls and piles of rubble in the corners and even some in the aisles. Honestly, we had seen better organized garage sales. Behind a front counter sat a little old lady, probably in her 60s or 70s, reading a book. We looked around and, surprisingly, my wife found an interesting little soapstone sculpture hiding in a heap. It had "$10" scrawled on its little handwritten sticker price tag, so we brought it to the counter. The woman said "that will be $10 even" and we suddenly realized that neither of us had any cash. My wife apologized to the woman and the woman lifted her hand and said "don't you two worry for a second" and then from under the counter she pulled out an iPhone with a card swiper attachment. She swiped my wife's card, said, "oh good, the connection isn't slow today for once," and we were set to go. We spent the remainder of the trip trying to reconcile the incongruities of that situation. We still have the sculpture. Never underestimate.[/QUOTE]