On 8/19/2022 7:40 PM, John Ruth wrote:
> Hmmm, we'll have to make up a term for this specific symptom of AFMO.  But,
surely, we've all done this. It's clearly a result of mental saturation.
>
> Let's just say that if you see something you like at a Flea, pick it up and
DON'T PUT IT BACK DOWN until you are absolutely certain that you aren't going to
buy it!!! Why? Because I'm right behind you, waiting for you to put it down
without purchasing it, whereupon it becomes fair game!!!

Well around these here parts, there are at any time 4 or 5 guys at
least, out looking for tools, and that doesn't include the Fastbuck
Freddies that sell anything that they can get on eBay. Even in the wee
hours of the early morning, if I see it, I grab it.

Sometimes I get burned when the condition turns out to be less than
desirable, but seeing as how, at least at the local flea markets, few
old tools are showing up these days, I have to take the chance.  I got
more, volume wise, up at Madison-Bouchville this past week, than I have
gotten at all the local markets combined for the entire summer to date.

Tony (and it's looking to be a VERY long winter...sigh)

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