I'm at work today and heavily involved in doing some extensive rigging for one of our customers. Another customer walks up to where I'm working and engages me in conversation about he's been away from salt water fishing for some time but is getting back into it. So we talk. After about 10 minutes of conversation I asked him if he hunted as well. he says he grew up hunting but got away from that too all these years. 'Do you still have your guns" I ask. "Yes", he says ," I shot guns that few shoot today, I grew up with those side by sides". I ask what kind of side by sides and he says, "you know, Parkers and LC Smiths" "Do you still have them" I inquire again (now I'm really excited) and he says "yes". "What grades might they be?". He says, they're A1"s I believe, I keep them oiled and stored away...funny, my kids have no interest in guns or hunting.. I don't what I'm going to do with them..." Now, he's moving away from me and heading towards the door and says I'll be back". (At this point my jaw is dropping and all I managed to say to him as he exited the store was come back and see me if you ever want to sell them. He says he will and we shake hands and he leaves.
Unfortunately, we had a shop full of customers, otherwise I would have asked him for a ride to his house (in Marian, Ma.) Dam, and I didn't even get his name. Call me flabbergasted.
You never know who is going to cross your path...
