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Re: Do we still do FOTW?:)
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Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:42:46 GMT
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cool story, Josh! so, umm, what's the address of the shop ;)
Build On!
John Matthews
Josh Opotzner <Josh120@aol.com> wrote in message
news:G4ALoL.9D4@lugnet.com...
> Woohoo! My dad and I were on the go today and came across a flea market.
> Knowing all of those great adventure stories including every plot element
> imaginable about AFOLs finding great things at flea markets, I made an
> effort to go.
>
> "On the way back" he says.
>
> "Yeah sure. After everything good is gone."
>
> "Oh, you don't get flea markets. They arn't gonna have any particular • Lego
> that they have only some of. Vendors go here and put up ten of • everything".
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> Alllrighty...
>
> Well, we pass it again, and then again. Finially, after we were done with
> everything else, on our way home, we stop at the flea market at about • 2:00.
>
> Almost right off the bat, I find an ancient lego divider tray filled with
> slopes and bricks. The bricks are differently molded, but just in the
> tubes. I buy it for $3 and find twenty 3x4 red slopes, and considering I
> was gonna buy the expensive+shipping red roof brick pack to finish a
> half-roofed town building, that's worth it already. But wait! Theres • more;
> a great handful of clear bricks, including two 3x4 slopes! I didn't even
> think those existed. Add classic 1x2x2 windows in a few colors, at least • 6
> red lattice fences, 2 red lattice fence doors (a la metroliner cargo in
> white) and about 50 basic bricks and you have a real FOTW. Hehe, but I
> found something else about 15 minutes later, too. An Ice Planet Celestial
> Sled, unopened and kind of shelf worn (but not crushed) for the retail • price
> of $4. But here, the plot thickens...
>
> "Hey, you really like Lego, eh? Hey, theres some guy down there that has
> tons of it, old. Next to that black car."
>
> I barely had time to thank him.
>
> But alas, upon arriving, and after interrogating the sellar, I find • somebody
> came and bought *everything*. This not only tells me it was all good, but
> also that it would have been there had I been there say, 4 hours earlier.
> Yeah, quite likely.
>
> But wait! Yes, a glimmer of hope...the man hands me a business
> card..."Whats this for?"
>
> "It's the address of my shop. I have tons of lego there. We're bound to
> have what your looking for. Come in any time during the week"
>
> After being hospitalized after collapsing and nearly having a heart • attack,
> the first thing I ask is 'Is it during the week yet?"
>
> --Josh
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