I went to a small local toy show the other day with SFL. It was fun, and there was a lot of strange things to buy. Here’s one of the three items I invested in:
The pack cost me $1.50. They were printed in 1976, so they were almost as old as me. And they were still sealed, as this snap shows:
If you read this regularly you’ll not be surprised I like trading cards, especially those of movies or TV shows I have watched. These were a good find then.
A couple of days later I opened the pack. Here’s what 35-year-old gum looks like:
KLS tried a piece and was almost instantly poisoned to death. In the interests of self-preservation, we ditched the rest!
But what about the cards? Here are the five I removed from this aeon’s old pack:
Before I opened it I said to KLS” “I hope I get one with the Eagle on it!”…
When I bought this pack there were two others. Before we left the show I returned to get the other two, with the intention of giving them away as Christmas gifts. To my surprise they were both gone!
When I exclaimed to SFL something like “But who the hell would buy these?” she just grinned at me like I was weird 🙂
it was most likely the same guy that walked off with the Ackbar you were eyeing:
“egads! look at this mint condition Ackbar! sir, I’ll take the lot of them! oh, and throw in the rest of those Space Cards…”
yep, that’s probably how it went!