This reminds me of an old story I heard camping one time, hope you don’t mind if I share. I’ll tell it in the first person context like I heard it….
A friend of mine’s wife told me she was getting Joey a water proof metal detector for his birthday. I told her ‘great”, I won’t have to hear how bad he wants one anymore. He wanted a water proof one because he thought it would help him to pan in the right places.
She got the thing, cost her two weeks tip money. She was pretty proud of it and asked me if I could think of a way to help him get the feel of it down on his birthday.
I said sure. I have a bunch of junk silver dimes, quarters and old copper wheat cents we can put out in the yard and he can hunt his little heart out. I went over and stomped several dimes, a few quarters and a handful of wheats all over the back yard.
Needless to say on party day, after several toast, many salutes, a burger and some home made lager the detector came out of hiding and was a hit. He in his blurry, found out how to turn it on and get in in auto mode. We all cheered him on as he staggered out through his wife’s beautiful lawn and garden in search of a fine tuned tone.
He only had to go 10 ft, (about 20 minutes) to find the first wheat. He yelled we’re rich after digging up the lawn to sift out the penny.
I had to leave early and my driver (Mrs. Rash) told me on the way home she was not sure that salting the back yard was a great plan on my part. Just in different words.
to make a long story short I failed to tell him before I left that the coins were planted around the yard for learning how to run his new tool. His wife on the other hand, I found out rather bluntly, had tried to tell him many times but we all know how men are when SOMEONE tries to tell us how to run our tool.?
I got back there when the visual of possibilities came to me (3 days later) only to find that beautiful lawn and garden with holes dug everywhere, some 2 feet deep, a screen box for sifting, a pick and a post hole digger.
I have not been back since, I hope she will forgive me someday. I would really like to know if he found them all or not!
