Sounds like a fun town... lol.
Eh, you eventually learn to laugh about it... better 'n crying, I guess.
How much do they give you for cans now days?
Sadly, the bottom dropped out of the scrap metal market back in 2015.
Thanks, Obama.
What with the recession on, it seems some crooks, to score a little extra cash, would get downright imaginative with their stealing. Marvin Webster elucidates.
Now when I was a kid, cans were about 25-30₵/lb. That doesn't sound like much, I suppose, but I knew all the best spots and the optimum time to hit each of 'em, how to weed out the tin clunkers with a small magnet, and how to stamp them flat to get more in a bag. (When they started coming out with those damn tall-boys, which take two stomps to properly crush, I think it left my right ankle pretty well-shot.) Yep, I had the can-hunting game down to a science. I figure taking in at least a pound/20 cans per day, over a month I must have cleared close to 100 lb. easy.
You got a premiere rock you like?
I have many interesting specimens from all over, but my favorite, I'd say, is the fabled "
Star of Armorel", which I found in my backyard. It's just a piece of crystal, I think, but I like the way it catches the light.
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