Down here at the pawn shop - Page 14

Undertoad · 11-23-2012, 05:44 PM

Every day is the carnival at the shop!

I didn't tell the story about the midget on my first day. It wasn't that important, but there was a midget in. And he was tailing this woman who was looking to try to sell us the world's worst student acoustic guitar. For five minutes I thought it was her kid in tow, and so did my coworker. But no, at the last minute we realized it was a midget.

(And every Friday is Black Friday...!)

Undertoad · 11-25-2012, 08:29 AM

Yesterday an elderly gent came in and paid the last $25 of many regular layaway payments on an alto sax.

He was overjoyed to have made the last payment, and gave me a fist bump when I handed him the instrument.

As he walked away, I turned over the last layaway receipt he got, the one we gave him last week, that showed he had one final $25 payment to make.

jimhelm · 11-25-2012, 09:30 AM

Hey, you got any pogo sticks?

Undertoad · 11-25-2012, 09:37 AM

Not unless that's code for something?

jimhelm · 11-25-2012, 11:00 AM

Lol, no ... Ripley put it on her list... Theyre not cheap!

sexobon · 11-25-2012, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

... He was overjoyed to have made the last payment, and gave me a fist bump when I handed him the instrument. ...

Sounds as though to him it was a horn, a cornucopia.

orthodoc · 11-25-2012, 03:37 PM

Uplifting.

Thanks for sharing, UT. I love this thread.

footfootfoot · 11-27-2012, 08:35 AM

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Originally Posted by jimhelm

Lol, no ... Ripley put it on her list... Theyre not cheap!

We find them at the transfer station. I'll keep an eye out for one.

infinite monkey · 11-27-2012, 08:37 AM

What's a transfer station?

My middle niece (of the younger set) got a pogo stick for christmas last year and she spends HOURS on it. We'd laugh so hard, we'd be inside and there would be S's little head bouncing up into sight of the window. Boing boing boing.

Lamplighter · 11-27-2012, 09:42 AM

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What's a transfer station?

You pay me to take your trash away, and
I'll charge the citiy/county to give it to someone else.

footfootfoot · 11-27-2012, 11:47 AM

Sort of.

Here, it's you buy a ticket (2.75) to take your trash to the transfer station (recyclables are free) and then you pay a boatload of taxes to have the trash sent to a burnplant.

Undertoad · 11-27-2012, 12:09 PM

Can anyone go to the transfer station?

Undertoad · 11-27-2012, 12:19 PM

A guy comes in and wants $5 to get to the Children's Hospital to visit his son. He attempts to get us to buy an ancient boombox. We don't take it.

He comes back with the boombox that he uses in his kitchen. It's newer, but it's covered in grease and the antenna is broken off. I explain that we have to be able to resell these items and so a boombox covered in grease is not something we will take in pawn.

He comes back with a highly scratched adult DVD, and a copy of the 3rd season of Martin. We don't buy adult DVDs and we give him $1 for Martin.

He's still out there somewhere looking for shitty items to bring us. But I don't think his son is at CHOP. I think he wants a bag o weed.

This occurs every hour of every day.

limey · 11-27-2012, 01:58 PM

Isn't CHOP rather a tactless nickname for a children's hospital?

jimhelm · 11-27-2012, 03:27 PM

Well, it could have been Children's Hospital University of Metropolitan Philadelphia... or CHUMP.....

11-25-2012, 09:30 AM	#198
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	Hey, you got any pogo sticks? __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

11-25-2012, 11:00 AM	#200
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	Lol, no ... Ripley put it on her list... Theyre not cheap! __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

11-25-2012, 03:37 PM	#202
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Uplifting. Thanks for sharing, UT. I love this thread. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

11-27-2012, 11:47 AM	#206
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Sort of. Here, it's you buy a ticket (2.75) to take your trash to the transfer station (recyclables are free) and then you pay a boatload of taxes to have the trash sent to a burnplant. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

11-27-2012, 01:58 PM	#209
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Isn't CHOP rather a tactless nickname for a children's hospital? __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

11-23-2012, 05:44 PM	#196
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Every day is the carnival at the shop! I didn't tell the story about the midget on my first day. It wasn't that important, but there was a midget in. And he was tailing this woman who was looking to try to sell us the world's worst student acoustic guitar. For five minutes I thought it was her kid in tow, and so did my coworker. But no, at the last minute we realized it was a midget. (And every Friday is Black Friday...!)

11-25-2012, 08:29 AM	#197
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Yesterday an elderly gent came in and paid the last $25 of many regular layaway payments on an alto sax. He was overjoyed to have made the last payment, and gave me a fist bump when I handed him the instrument. As he walked away, I turned over the last layaway receipt he got, the one we gave him last week, that showed he had one final $25 payment to make.

11-25-2012, 09:37 AM	#199
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Not unless that's code for something?

11-27-2012, 08:37 AM	#204
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	What's a transfer station? My middle niece (of the younger set) got a pogo stick for christmas last year and she spends HOURS on it. We'd laugh so hard, we'd be inside and there would be S's little head bouncing up into sight of the window. Boing boing boing.

11-27-2012, 12:09 PM	#207
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Can anyone go to the transfer station?

11-27-2012, 12:19 PM	#208
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	A guy comes in and wants $5 to get to the Children's Hospital to visit his son. He attempts to get us to buy an ancient boombox. We don't take it. He comes back with the boombox that he uses in his kitchen. It's newer, but it's covered in grease and the antenna is broken off. I explain that we have to be able to resell these items and so a boombox covered in grease is not something we will take in pawn. He comes back with a highly scratched adult DVD, and a copy of the 3rd season of Martin. We don't buy adult DVDs and we give him $1 for Martin. He's still out there somewhere looking for shitty items to bring us. But I don't think his son is at CHOP. I think he wants a bag o weed. This occurs every hour of every day.

11-27-2012, 03:27 PM	#210
jimhelm a beautiful fool Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: 39.939705 Posts: 4,504	Well, it could have been Children's Hospital University of Metropolitan Philadelphia... or CHUMP..... __________________ There's a Shadow just behind me. Shrouding every step I take. Making every promise empty, pointing every finger at me. _tool

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