Posted on 10/04/2019 12:32:56 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
She plans to "buy house and get a boob job" with her new found fortune.
. A few months back, I received a call from a woman in Canada about a watch she wanted to sell. As she tells it, she was sitting on the couch one day when she dropped her phone. She stuck her hands in between the cushions to retrieve it, but instead of her phone, she pulled out a watch. Upon closer inspection, she saw that it was a Rolex.
Rolex produced the manually wound Daytona ref. 6241 from 1966 to 1969, roughly. During this short three-year period, fewer than 3,000 pieces of the 6241 were made and just a small percentage of those were fitted with the “exotic dial” (that would later be nicknamed the Paul Newman dial). As with all collectibles, rarity and market popularity are golden attributes when dealing with vintage timepieces—and the Paul Newman Daytona 6241 boasts a combination of both.
And the watch was indeed a genuine vintage Rolex Daytona 6241 Paul Newman, worth north of $250,000.
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RC Cola half quart!!!
For the same price as the 12oz!!! Ten cents.
The same time frame the same local store, my mother would send me, I think with thirty cents for a quart of cold Meister Brau as my dad was mowing the lawn.
No ID needed.
GRAVITY
She’s a blithering idiot for putting the story out. She should have simply had it verified and then sold it.
I found a $15,000 Rolex in the thick rough of a golf course (my shot must have hit a rock and deflected there). I reunited it with the very appreciate owner who left a note in the clubhouse. He was especially happy because his dad gave it to him and had since past away. He gave me a $500 reward.
Your post reminds me that my irish grandma would send me to the corner tavern to buy her a cardboard carton of draught beer. This was in Newark, N.J. around 1950-53. Great days.
LOL
The question is who Newman was boinking on the couch?
Maybe she is tired of the knee injuries?
Sure that isn’t an R O C cola and a moon pie?
If remember the ‘kid getting beer to go’, do you remember the packs of cigarettes with a couple of pennies on the side?
So you could put a couple of dimes in the cigarette machine and you would get you 2 cents change in the pack....
The first thing a thrift store employee does with newly donated items is check them over, and the honest ones will contact the donor to return his valuables.
Similar to "rushing the growler", taking the metal container to the pub for a fill. A few places were still selling waxed cardboard containers of draught after I returned from the service in the mid 60s.
“”How did the watch get in her couch? Did she buy the couch second hand used? Did someone visiting her drop it in the cushions?””
Had she NEVER removed the cushions for cleaning? No one ever lost any change (or anything else) they wanted to recover thus removing them?
Years ago I bought a big wooden box of blues and jazz records at an estate sale. The sign on the box said: “Everything in the box for $10.00” I took the whole box of maybe 50 records for the $10.00
The house had a huge, coin collection in frames hanging on the walls that was going to be auctioned off that I had no interest in.
At home, I was going through the box hoping to find a rare Freddy Hubbard or something and found four unmounted coins in the box. One was a Roman silver coin that was worth the price of the silver as there are piles of Roman silver coins around. Two were Chinese Imperial coins with square holes in the center and since there are still millions of them in Asia they are worth the spot price of the bronze or maybe a little more at a flea market. The 4th was from 325 BC from the Kingdom of Macedonia and has the head of Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great on it. According to a coin guy that authenticated it the coin is worth quite a bit. Maybe one of these days I’ll sell it.
I guess the people conducting the estate sale didn’t go through the box. Since it did have a sign that said “Everything in the box $10.00” I didn’t feel bad about keeping it.
I dragged a sofa in from where my neighbor left it on the curb and found a green Cheeto. It tasted funny.
Right there with ya
Dumbass. Buy 5 houses with $50K down on each, and generate sufficient monthly income to have the boob job in a few months at most. After that, she’ll have enough to buy her own house and make payments on it from the monthly income, with spare cash each month. She can keep the houses, and raise the rents over time.
I guess there are worse places she could have lost it.
Maybe 30 years ago I was living right on the beach. My wife was deceased. My Daughter and I spent two weeks at my Parents.
My niece lived less than a hundred miles away. She asked if she and four of her girlfriends could stay at the beach while I was away.
They left the place spotless. After a few days I noticed my college letter jacket was missing. I phoned my Niece. She thought about it a few seconds and said she knew just who took it as she had seen her wearing it once.
Now Natalie was a beautiful girl but she was not one to mess with. The next day she told me she had it back.
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